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THE    ONE    HUNDREDTH   ANNIVERSARY 

OF  THE  FIRST  MEETING  OF  THE  GENERAL 
ASSEMBLY,  UNDER  THE  PRESENT  CONSTI- 
TUTION    AND     THE     SECOND     GENERAL 
LEGISLATIVE  REUNION 


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THE  CAPITOL,  HARTFORD, 

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  7,  1919 


Compiled  by  WILLIAM  HARRISON  tAtLOk 
Secretary  of  the  Centennial  Committee 


HARTFORD 

Published  by  the  State 
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Publication 

Approved  by 

The  Board  of  Control 


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HARTFORD.  CONN. 


PREFACE. 


This  volume  is  published  by  the  State  of  Connecticut,  in  accordance 
with  Senate  Joint  Resolution  No.  47,  passed  May  6,  19 19.  Thirty- 
five  hundred  copies  were  authorized  by  the  Board  of  Control.  The 
introduction  was  kindly  written,  at  my  request,  by  George  S.  Godard, 
State  Librarian.  The  plain  facts  are  given  in  the  report,  no  attempt 
being  made  to  elaborate. 

The  Registration  Cards  show  that  1,387  state  officers  and  members 
of  the  General  Assembly  and  465  other  officials  and  invited  guests;  a 
total  of  1,852  were  present  at  the  Centennial.  A  majority  of  the  803 
additional  members,  who  had  signified  their  intention  of  being  present, 
owing  to  the  inclemency  of  the  weather  did  not  come. 

Two  thousand  one  hundred  and  ninety  state  officers  and  members 
of  the  General  Assembly  acknowledged  the  receipt  of  the  invitation 
sent  out  by  the  committee. 

The  heartiest  thanks  of  the  Centennial  Committee  are  extended  to 
all  who  assisted  in  making  the  Centennial  such  a  decided  success. 
It  is  hoped  this  volume  will  prove  of  increasing  interest  and  value. 


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INTRODUCTION. 


GEORGE  S.  GODARD, 
State  Librarian. 

That  was  a  remarkable  gathering  which  met  on  Capitol  Hill  Wed- 
nesday, May  7,  1919.  In  response  to  an  invitation  from  the  General 
Assembly,  extended  through  a  Special  Legislative  Committee,  con- 
sisting of  three  Senators  and  eight  Representatives,  working  through 
William  Harrison  Taylor,  "  Souvenir  Taylor,"  as  its  Secretary,  those 
who  had  served  the  State  as  State  Officers  or  members  of  the  General 
Assembly,  or  officers  thereof,  came  together  to  celebrate  the  One  Hun- 
dredth Anniversary  of  the  first  meeting  of  the  Connecticut  General 
Assembly  under  our  present  Constitution. 

By  special  arrangements,  Governor  Marcus  H.  Holcomb  welcomed 
the  Ex-Governors  in  the  Executive  Chamber;  Lieutenant-Governor 
Wilson  welcomed  the  Lieutenant-Governors  in  his  room;  Secretary  of 
State  Perry,  Treasurer  Gilpatric,  Comptroller  Webster,  and  Attorney- 
General  Healy,  each  welcomed  their  predecessors  in  their  respective 
offices.  In  like  manner  the  members  of  the  Senate  of  19 19  welcomed 
their  predecessors  by  Districts,  while  the  members  of  the  House  of 
1919  received  their  predecessors  by  Counties. 

While  the  day  was  far  from  a  pleasant  one,  those  invited  began  to 
arrive  early,  and  it  was  not  long  before  the  Capitol,  brilliantly  lighted 
for  the  occasion,  was  resounding  with  the  merry  laugh  and  hearty 
greetings  of  those  who  came  from  all  parts  of  the  State  and  were 
meeting  those  whom  perhaps  they  had  not  met  for  many  years.  The 
brilliant  lights,  the  hearty  hand  shakes,  the  cordial  greetings,  the 
united  singing,  the  generous  lunch,  and  the  numerous  signs  of  greet- 
ings and  directions,  characteristic  of  Secretary  Taylor,  all  contributed 
towards  making  the  day  a  success  socially.  The  program  which  had 
been  arranged  for  the  occasion  and  which  had  to  be  presented  in  the 
Representatives  Hall,  rather  than  on  the  Capitol  grounds  as  planned, 
was  appreciated. 


The  assemblage  having  been  called  to  order  by  Senator  Albert  H. 
House,  Chairman  of  the  Centennial  Committee,  and  prayer  having 
been  offered  by  Senate  Chaplain  Rev.  Charles  H.  Puffer,  the  address 
of  welcome  by  Governor  Marcus  H.  Holcomb,  the  historical  address 
by  Ex-Governor  and  Ex-Chief  Justice  Hon.  Simeon  E.  Baldwin,  the 
poem  upon  "  The  Spirit,  of  Connecticut  The  Constitution  State  "  by 
Herbert  Randall,  the  address  by  Hon.  Charles  Hopkins  Clark,  Editor 
of  the  "HARTFORD  COURANT,"  upon  the  Capitals  and  State 
Houses  of  Connecticut,  and  the  addresses  of  Lieutenant-Governor 
Clifford  B.  Wilson,  representing  the  Senate,  and  Speaker  James  F. 
Walsh,  representing  the  House,  all  contributed  to  make  the  occasion 
a  memorable  one,  as  was  evidenced  by  the  hearty  rendering  of 
"America  "  which  closed  the  program. 

At  the  State  Library  a  special  exhibit  was  made  of  all  those  items 
relating  to  the  development  of  the  Connecticut  Constitution.  In  the 
exhibit  was  shown  the  old  charter  and  the  Constitution  of  1818,  both 
housed  in  an  artistic  fire-proof  vault  just  under  Stuart's  portrait  of 
Washington  in  Memorial  Hall.  In  adjoining  cases  was  a  collection 
of  the  several  revisions  of  Connecticut  Law  from  the  first  one,  together 
with  the  original  manuscript  journal  of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
of  18 1 8.  The  mural  decoration  by  Albert  Herter  of  New  York,  which 
occupies  the  panel  back  of  the  Judges  Bench  in  the  Supreme  Court 
Room,  commemorates  the  assembling  of  the  citizens  of  Windsor,  Hart- 
ford and  Wethersfield  at  the  moment  they  are  about  to  adjourn,  having 
completed  the  formulating  of  "  THE  ELEVEN  FUNDAMENTAL 
ORDERS  "  now  recognized  to  be  the  first  written  constitution  in  the 
modern  sense.  Thomas  Hooker,  occupying  the  central  part  of  the 
scene,  is  shown  in  the  act  of  making  his  famous  declaration  "  In 
matters  of  greater  consequence  which  concern  the  common  good  a 
General  Council  chosen  by  all  to  transact  businesses  which  concern  all 
I  conceive  under  favor  most  suitable  to  rule  and  most  safe  for  relief 
of  the  whole."  This  great  declaration  has  been  fittingly  inscribed  on 
a  tablet  inserted  in  the  center  of  the  tile  floor  in  Memorial  Hall  at  the 
State  Library,  which  tile  also  shows  the  evolution  of  the  seals  of 
Connecticut. 

Probably  for  the  first  time  the  contents  of  the  Connecticut  Constitu- 
tion Tablet,  erected  on  the  northwest  wall,  near  the  battle  flags,  by  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  came  to  be  appreciated.  This 
epitome  of  Connecticut's  unique  place  in  modern  political  history,  was 
for  use  at  the  Connecticut  State  Building  at  the  Louisiana  Purchase 
Exposition  at  St.  Louis,  1904,  by  Mrs.  John  M.  Holcombe  of  Hartford, 
a  member  of  the  National  Board  of  Lady  Managers.    The  frame  which 

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was  executed  by  Albert  Entress  of  Hartford,  except  the  inside 
moulding,  which  was  made  from  an  oaken  beam  taken  from  the  most 
ancient  of  the  Gold  Street  houses  bordering  the  ancient  cemetery  in 
which  the  settlers  of  Hartford  are  buried,  is  of  charter  oak  contributed 
by  Mrs.  Samuel  Colt,  Miss  Alice  Elliott  Trumbull  and  Mrs.  Holcombe. 
The  four  dates  carved  upon  this  frame,  namely,  1639,  tne  Consti- 
tution born  in  Connecticut;  1662,  charter  secured  by  John  Winthrop 
and  an  infant  republic  protected;  1687,  charter  hidden  in  the  oak  and 
the  Republic  preserved;  1789,  adoption  of  the  United  States  Constitu- 
tion on  Connecticut  Model,  are  pivotal  dates  in  the  history  of  Connecti- 
cut, whose  position  in  political  history  is  unique,  as  evidenced  by  the 
following  quotations  from  leading  historians,  all  of  which  have  been 
so  beautifully  illuminated  by  Mr.  Charles  L.  N.  Camp  of  New  Haven 
upon  this  our  Connecticut  Constitution  Tablet : 

CONNECTICUT,  THE  CONSTITUTION  STATE 

"  The  eleven  fundamental  orders  of  Connecticut,  with  their  pre- 
amble, present  the  first  example  in  history  of  a  written  constitution." 
Green :  "  Short  History  of  the  English  People." 

"  The  birthplace  of  American  democracy  is  Hartford !  Government 
of  the  people,  by  the  poeple,  and  for  the  people  first  took  shape  in 
Connecticut.  The  American  form  of  commonwealth  originated  in 
Connecticut  and  not  in  Massachusetts,  Virginia,  or  any  other  colony. 
The  Connecticut  Constitution  of  1639  was  the  first  written  constitution 
in  the  history  of  nations."  Alexander  Johnston. 

"  It  was  the  first  written  constitution  known  to  history,  that  created 
a  government."  John  Fiske. 

"Alone  of  "the  thirteen  colonies,  Connecticut  entered  into  the  War 
of  the  Revolution  with  her  governor  and  council  at  her  head  under  the 
constitution  of  her  Royal  Charter."  Leonard  Woolsey  Bacon. 

"  It  is  on  the  banks  of  the  Connecticut,  under  the  mighty  preaching 
of  Thomas  Hooker,  and  in  the  constitution  to  which  he  gave  life,  if 
not  form,  that  we  draw  the  first  breath  of  that  atmosphere  which  is 
now  so  familiar  to  us." 

Johnston:  "Connecticut"  (American  Commonwealths.) 

"  Thomas  Hooker,  the  man  who  first  made  possible  our  American 
democracy."  Elliott:  "History  of  New  England." 

"  The  Connecticut  Constitution  of  1639  is  the  foundation  of  the 
republican  institutions  of  the  colony  and  state.  It  may  claim  on  higher 
considerations  the  attention  of  students  of  politics,  science,  and  general 
history."  J.  Hammond  Trumbull. 

"  The  first  constitution  written  out  as  a  complete  frame  of  civil 
order  in  the  new  world  embodies  all  the  essential  features  of  the  con- 
stitutions of  our  states,  and  of  the  republic  itself  as  they  exist  at  the 
present  day."  Horace  Bushnell. 

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Those  who  were  permitted  to  witness  and  join  in  these  anniversary 
exercises  commemorating  our  first  one  hundred  years  under  our  present 
constitution,  were  impressed'  with  the  great  work  which  had  been 
accomplished  by  those  citizens  of  Connecticut  who  have  "  gone  on 
before  "  and  of  responsibilities  which  rest  upon  those  now  living  to 
see  to  it  that  those  liberties,  those  opportunities,  and  those  responsi- 
bilities which  are  ours  shall  be  handed  on  inviolate,  to  those  who  shall 
assume  the  conduct  of  affairs  in  the  days  to  come.  All  returned  to 
their  homes  understanding  as  never  before  the  real  meanings  of  those 
declarations  made  upon  the  Connecticut  Constitution  Tablet  now 
keeping  company  with  those  sacred  flags  which  represent  another  side 
and  another  victory  in  the  life  of  Connecticut. 


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CLERK'S  REPORT. 


SOUTHINGTON,    CONN.,    May    12,    I919. 

General  Assembly  Centennial  Committee, 
Wm.  H.  Taylor,  Secretary, 
Hartford,   Conn. 
My  dear  Taylor: — 

As  per  your  request  of  the  7th  inst,  I  herewith  enclose  my  report, 
in  brief,  as  clerk  of  the  Centennial  Committee : 

March  12,  1919  —  At  State  Library.  The  meeting  of  the  Com- 
mittee for  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  first  legislative 
meeting  of  the  General  Assembly  under  the  present  Constitution  for 
the  purpose  of  organization,  was  held  at  the  State  Library  on  March 
12th,  1919.  Present:  Senators  House,  Hemenway  and  Bissell,  and 
Representatives  Eaton,  Davis,  Barnes,  Wright,  Geary  and  Alvord. 
Senator  House  was  appointed  Chairman  and  Mr.  Barnes  was 
appointed  Clerk. 

VOTED  That  this  Committee  recommend  that  a  Centennial  Celebration 
be  held  on  the  7th  of  May,  1919. 

Senators     Hemenway     and    Messrs.     Geary     and     Davis     were 

appointed   to  prepare  a   program   and   proper  bill   to  present  to  the 

legislature. 

VOTED  That  the  exercises  be  confined  to  a  literary  and  musical 
program. 

VOTED  That  a  committee  be  appointed  to  wait  on  the  Governor  and 
learn  his  wishes  regarding  the  details  of  the  Centennial 
exercises. 

The  Chairman  appointed  Senator  Hemenway  and  Messrs,  Eaton 
and  Davis  to  wait  on  the  Governor  in  accord  with  the  above  vote. 
VOTED     That  an  appropriation  not  to  exceed  $5,000  be  asked  for. 
VOTED     To  adjourn  subject  to  the  call  of  the  Chairman. 

March  2/,  ipig  —  At  State  Library.  The  second  meeting  of  the 
Committee  was  held  on  March  27th  and  was  called  to  order  at  2  :30 
P.  M.  by  the  Chairman,  Senator  House.  William  Harrison  Taylor 
and  State  Librarian  Godard  met  with  the  Committee. 

Senator  House  reported  that  the  report  of  the  Preliminary  Com- 
mittee advising  the   appropriation   of  five   thousand   dollars   for   this 


purpose  had  been  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  and  the  Preliminary 
Committee  had  been  appointed  a  permanent  committee  to  take  in 
charge  the  arrangements  for  the  centennial  exercises. 

Senator  Albert  H.  House  of  the  7th  District  was  elected  permanent 
Chairman.  Representative  Frank  H.  Barnes,  Southington,  Clerk, 
and  William  Harrison  Taylor,  Secretary.   * 

Robert  O.  Eaton,  North  Haven ;  William  H.  Hall,  Willington,  and 
Senator  Charles  C.  Hemenway,  Hartford,  were  elected  Committee  on 
Speakers. 

Senator  House,  State  Librarian  Godard  and  Mr.  Taylor  were 
appointed  a  Sub-committee  on  Printing  and  Badges  and  asked  to 
report  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  Committee,  to  be  held  Tuesday  after- 
noon, April  1st,  immediately  after  adjournment  of  the  General 
Assembly. 

April  1,  ipip  — At  Capitol.  The  third  meeting  of  the  Centennial 
Committee  was  held  in  the  afternoon  of  April  1st,  at  the  Capitol. 
House  Chairman  Davis  presided. 

It  was  voted  that  the  Secretary  be  directed  to  send  circular  latters, 
with  attached  blank  for  names,  to  the  several  members  of  the  General 
Assembly,  as  per  proof  submitted. 

It  was  voted  that  three  thousand  badges  be  purchased  from  the 
Whitehead  &  Hoag  Co.,  as  per  sample  submitted,  at  a  cost  of  25 ^c 
each, total  $765. 

It  was  voted  that  the  contract  for  five  thousand  copper  plate 
invitations  be  granted  to  the  Gustave  Fischer  Co.,  for  $435.00,  Mr. 
Fischer  to  submit  form  of  same  for  approval  before  printing. 

It  was  voted  that  the  Secretary  be  instructed  to  send  out  these 
invitations  at  the  earliest  date  possible. 

It  was  voted  that  the  Secretary  be  instructed  to  communicate  with 
the  bandmaster  of  the  Governor's  Foot  Guard  Band,  and  report  at 
the  next  meeting  of  the  Committee. 

April  J,  igip  —  At  State  Library.  The  fourth  meeting  of  the 
Centennial  Committee  was  held  on  Thursday  afternoon,  April  3rd, 
at  the  State  Library,  Senator  House  presided.  It  was  voted  that  the 
Secretary  be  instructed  to  engage  the  Governor's  Foot  Guard  Band 
of  thirty-five  pieces,  in  accordance  with  terms  submitted  in  a  letter  to 
him  by  Wm.  M.  Redfield,  bandmaster. 

The  following  persons  were  appointed  as  members  of  the  Recep- 
tion Committee  of  the  Centennial : 

To  receive  ex-State  Officials:  Hon.  Marcus  JEL  Holcomb,  Gov- 
ernor; Hon.  Clifford  B.  Wilson,  Lieut.-Governor ;  Hon.  Frederick  L. 

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Perry,  Secretary;  Hon.  G.  Harold  Gilpatric,  Treasurer;  Hon.  Morris 
C.  Webster,  Comptroller;  Hon.  Frank  E.  Healy,  Attorney-General. 

To  receive  ex-Senators:     The  members  of  the  Senate. 

To  receive  ex-Speakers:     Hon.  James  F.  Walsh,  Speaker. 

To  receive  ex-Chaplains:  Rev.  Charles  H.  Puffer,  Chaplain  of  the 
Senate ;  Rev.  Homer  W.  Hildreth,  Chaplain  of  the  House. 

To  receive  ex-Clerks:  Edward  J.  Kenealy,  Clerk  of  the  Senate; 
Leo  J.  Noonan,  Ass't  Clerk  of  the  Senate ;  W.  Arthur  Countryman,  Jr., 
Clerk  of  the  House;  J.  Frederick  Baker,  Ass't  Clerk  of  the  House. 

To  receive  ex-Representatives :  Mr.  Stevens  of  Berlin,  Mr. 
Green  of  Hartford,  Mr.  Beckwith  of  West  Hartford,  Mr.  Turney  of 
Windsor,  Mr.  Ney  of  Farmington,  Mr.  Brewer  of  East  Hartford, 
Hartford  County;  Mr.  Osborn  of  Branford,  Mr.  Walter  of  Cheshire, 
Mr.  Healey  of  Waterbury,  Mr.  Gaillard  of  New  Haven,  Mr.  Loucks 
of  Wallingford,  Mr.  Pope  of  Oxford,  New  Haven  County;  Rev.  Mr. 
Phillips  of  Huntington,  Mr.  Shaw  of  Redding,  Mr.  Huxford  of  Stam- 
ford, Mr.  Morris  of  Newtown,  Mr.  Kenealy  of  Stamford,  Mr.  Bailey 
of  Danbury,  Fairfield  County;  Mr.  Vincent  of  Kent,  Mr.  Jones  of  New 
Hartford,  Mr.  Rudd  of  Salisbury,  Mr.  Strong  of  Winchester,  Mr. 
Curtiss  of  Woodbury,  Mr.  Green  of  New  Milford,  Litchfield  County; 
Mr.  Williams  of  Norwich,  Mr.  Smith  of  Groton,  Mr.  Allyn  of  Ledyard, 
Mr.  McNicol  of  Griswold,  Mr.  Graham  of  Lisbon,  Mr.  Reynolds  of 
Lyme,  New  London  County;  Mr.  King  of  Windham,  Mr.  Franklin  of 
Brooklyn,  Mr.  Dorrance  of  Plainfleld,  Mr.  Haines  of  Pomfret,  Mr. 
Kent  of  Putnam,  Mr.  Baker  of  Ashford,  Windham  County;  Mr.  Emily 
of  East  Haddam,  Mr.  Wilcox  of  Middletown,  Mr.  Gates  of  Old  Say- 
brook,  Mr.  Moore  of  Saybrook,  Mr.  Chittenden  of  Killingworth,  Mr. 
Asman  of  Durham,  Middlesex  County;  Mr.  Talcott  of  Vernon,  Mr. 
Higgins  of  Coventry,  Mr.  Cook  of  Andover,  Mr.  O'Halloran  of  Staf- 
ford, Mr.  Fuller  of  Somers,  Mr.  Reed  of  Union,  Tolland  County. 

Resident  Committee:  Mayor  Richard  J.  Kinsella,  Chairman; 
Hon.  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  Hon.  Frank  A.  Hagarty,  Hon.  Edward  L. 
Smith,  Hon.  Charles  Hopkins  Clark,  Hon.  Newton  C.  Brainard. 

May  i,  ipig  —  At  Capitol.  The  fifth  meeting  of  the  Committee 
was  held  on  Thursday  afternoon,  May  1st,  at  the  Capitol,  Senator 
House  presided.  The  Secretary  reported  that  an  excellent  box  lunch 
would  be  furnished  by  the  Waldorf  System  (Baldwin  Division)  for 
40c  per  box,  including  hot  coffee.  It  was  voted  that  his  report  be 
approved  and  that  2,500  boxes  be  ordered.  It  was  voted  to  accept 
with  heartiest  thanks  the  kind  offer  of  Representative  Charles  G. 
Morris,  of  Newtown,  president  of  the  New  Haven  Dairy  Company, 

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to  furnish  2,500  boxes  of  ice  cream  for  the  lunch  with  the  compli- 
ments of  the  company. 

May  6,  ipig  —  At  Capitol.  At  the  sixth  meeting  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Tuesday,  May  6th,  it  was  voted  —  That  the  Secretary  be 
empowered  by  the  Committee  to  purchase  tokens,  at  a  price  not  to 
exceed  $20.00  each  to  be  presented  to  the  oldest  member  in  point  of 
years  and  that  the  oldest  member  in  point  of  service  and  that  the 
Speaker  of  the  House  be  invited  to  present  the  tokens. 

May  7,  19 19  —  At  Capitol.  On  May  7th  the  Committee  held  a 
meeting  in  the  forenoon  for  the  purpose  of  completing  arrangements 
for  the  day. 

May  8,  ipip —  At  Capitol.     The  last  meeting  of  the  Committee 
was  held  late  in  the  afternoon  of  May  8th,  at  the  Capitol,  when  the 
following  votes  were  past: 
VOTED 


VOTED 


VOTED 


That  William  H.  Taylor  be,  and  hereby  is  instructed  to  com- 
pile the  records  and  statistics  of  the  Centennial  Celebration 
of  the  General  Assembly  held  at  the  State  Capitol  on  May 
7th,  19 19. 

That  William  H.  Taylor  be  allowed  for  his  services  as  Secre- 
tary of  the  Centennial  Committee  and  for  compiling  records 
of  the  Centennial  Celebration,  the  balance  of  the  appropria- 
tion (namely  $1,513.26),  after  all  bills  have  been  paid,  and  any 
further  sum  the  Board  of  Control  may  deem  proper. 
That  Secretary  Taylor  be  instructed  to  extend  a  hearty  vote  of 
thanks  from  the  Committee  to  George  S.  Godard,  state  libra- 
rian ;  Morris  C.  Webster,  comptroller ;  George  A.  Parker, 
superintendent  of  parks ;  Garrett  J.  Farrell,  chief  of  police ; 
all  those  who  took  part  in  the  literary  exercises ;  Charles  Bart- 
lett,  the  V.  M.  C.  A.  song  leader;  Wm.  M.  Redfield,  bandmaster 
of  the  Governor's  Foot  Guard  Band ;  Robert  H.  Morrison, 
manager  of  the  Waldorf  System  (Baldwin  Division)  ;  Repre- 
sentative Charles  G.  Morris,  president  of  the  New  Haven 
Dairy  Company,  and  all  others  who  contributed  to  the  success 
of  the  Centennial  Celebration. 


Attest. 


C4*A, 


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FINANCIAL  STATEMENT. 


RECEIPTS. 
March  19,  1919,  State  appropriation    $5,000.00 

EXPENDITURES. 

April       2,  The  Case,  Lockwood  &  Brainard  Co. : 

Stationery    3I-50 

April       5,  Clark  &  Smith: 

Stationery    22.05 

April       7,  Clark  &  Smith : 

Stationery    6.75 

vEtna  Stamp  Works : 

Rubber  stamps    1.65 

April       8,  David  A.  Wilson,  Postmaster: 

Postage  stamps    255.60 

April     22,  Clark  &  Smith: 

Stationery    19-30 

April     23,  The  A.  Pindar  Corp. : 

Engraving    3.25 

April     25,  Whitehead  &  Hoag  Co. : 

3,000  badges 765.00 

April     28,  The  Gustave  Fischer  Co. : 

5,000  sets  copper  engraved  invitations  435 -oo 

May         I,  American  Railway  Express  Co.: 

Express    3.47 

May         6,  Bill  Brothers: 

Cartage    4.80 

May        6,  O.  J.  Hatfield : 

Placards    24.50 

May         6,  Daniel  McAuliffe: 

Services    3.50 

May        7,  I.  O.  O.  F. : 

Use  of  coffee  cups   10.00 

Wm.  M.  Redfield,  Manager: 

Governor's  Foot  Guard  Band 156.00 

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Robert  H.  Morrison,  Manager  Waldorf 
System  (Baldwin  Division)  : 

2,500  lunches  1,000.00 

E.  Habenstein: 

Catering    375-00 

Lux,  Bond  &  Lux,  Inc. : 

Two  loving  cups  and  engraving  ....  40.00 

John  Coombs : 

Flowers 70-75 

The  Case,  Lockwood  &  Brainard  Co. : 

5,000  programs   86.65 

May        8,  Mrs.  S.  B.  Greene : 

Services   45-00 

Glenna  A.  Libby : 

Services    99.00 

Young  Men's  Christian  Association : 

Expenses  of  Song  Leaders  C.  O. 
Pardo  and  Charles  Bartlett  (serv- 
ices free)    27.97 

William  Harrison  Taylor: 

Services,  etc 1,513.26 


$5,000.00 


(Attest) 

Secretary. 


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RESOLUTIONS  OF  THE  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY. 


The  following  actions  were  taken  by  the  General  Assembly  in  re- 
gard to  the  Centennial  Celebration,  as  recorded  in  the  Journals  of  the 
Senate  and  House. 

JOURNAL  OF  THE  SENATE. 

Senate  Joint  Resolution  No.  47.  By  Senator  Hemenway  of  the 
Second  District,  a  resolution  concerning  a  celebration  in  commemora- 
tion of  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  First  Meeting  of  the 
Connecticut  General  Assembly,  and  calling  for  a  committee  of  three 
Senators  and  six  Representatives. 

On  motion  of  Senator  Hemenway  of  the  Second  District,  the 
resolution  was  passed,  under  a  suspension  of  the  rules  and  transmitted 
to  the  House. 

The  following  is  the  resolution: 
Resolved  by  this  Assembly: 

That  a  joint  special  committee  consisting  of  three  Senators  to  be 
appointed  by  the  President  of  the  Senate  and  six  Representatives  to  be 
appointed  by  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  is  hereby 
raised  for  the  purpose  of  preparing  such  legislation  as  it  may  believe 
to  be  necessary  or  suitable,  and  to  introduce  the  same  within  thirty 
days  from  the  passage  hereof,  relating  to  a  legislative  or  public  cele- 
bration to  be  held  on  the  seventh  day  of  May,  1919,  in  commemoration 
of  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  first  meeting  of  the  Con- 
necticut General  Assembly, 

Passed  January  30. 

Senate  Joint  Resolution  No.  47.  (See  House  Journal,  January 
30th.)  A  resolution  concerning  a  Celebration  in  Commemoration  of 
the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  First  Meeting  of  the  Con- 
necticut General  Assembly,  was  received  from  the  House,  the  resolu- 
tion having  been  amended  by  Schedule  "A"  and  passed. 

The  Senate  had  previously  passed  the  resolution. 

On  motion  of  Senator  Klett  of  the  Sixth  District,  the  Senate  re- 
considered its  former  action. 

The  amendment  was  then  adopted. 

The  resolution  was  then  passed  as  amended  by  Schedule  "A." 

The  following  is  the  amendment: 

Schedule  "A" 
At  the  end  of  line  two,  strike  out  the  word  u  six,"  and  insert  in 
lieu  thereof  the  word  "  eight." 
Passed  February  5. 

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Senate  Joint  Resolution  No.  47.  (See  Senate  Journal,  January 
30th.)  A  resolution  concerning  a  Celebration  in  Commemoration  of 
the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  First  Meeting  of  the  Con- 
necticut General  Assembly,  and  calling  for  a  committee  of  three  Sena- 
tors and  six  Representatives. 

The  President  announced  the  following  appointments  to  said  com- 
mittee: Senators  House  of  the  Seventh  District,  Bissell  of  the 
Twenty-fourth  District  and  Hemenway  of  the  Second  District.  (Re- 
appointed as  Senate  Committee  to  make  arangements  for  a  public  cele- 
bration). 

Passed  February  13. 

Senate  Bill  No.  553.  The  report  of  the  Special  Committee  on  the 
One  Hundredth  Anniversary  Celebration,  on  a  bill  entitled  "An  Act 
concerning  a  Celebration  of  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the 
First  Meeting  of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly,"  recommending 
the  reference  of  the  bill  to  the  Committee  on  Appropriations,  was  re- 
ceived from  the  House,  the  bill  having  been  referred,  and  the  report  of 
the  committee  accepted. 

The  bill  was  so  referred,  and  the  report  of  the  committee  accepted, 
in  concurrence. 

Passed  March  13. 

Senate  Bill  No.  553.  (See  Senate  Journal,  March  13th.)  The 
report  of  the  committee  on  Appropriations,  on  a  bill  entitled  "  An  Act 
concerning  a  Celebration  in  Commemoration  of  the  One  Hundredth 
Anniversary  of  the  First  Meeting  of  the  General  Assembly,"  was  taken 
from  the  table  on  motion  of  Senator  Mead  of  the  Twenty-seventh 
District,  recommending  the  passage  of  the  bill,  was  received. 

Under  a  suspension  of  the  rules,  the  bill  was  read  the  third  time, 
and  explained  by  Senator  Mead  of  the  Twenty-seventh  District,  chair- 
man of  the  committee  on  the  part  of  the  Senate. 

The  bill  was  then  passed  and  the  report  of  the  committee  accepted. 

The  following  is  the  bill: 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  General 
Assembly  convened : 

Section  1.  A  special  committee  consisting  of  three  senators  to  be 
appointed  by  the  President  of  the  Senate  and  eight  representatives  to 
be  appointed  by  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  is  raised 
for  the  purpose  of  making  such  arrangements  as  may  be  suitable  for 
the  conduct  of  a  public  celebration  to  be  held  on  the  seventh  day  of 
May,  1919,  in  commemoration  of  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the 
first  meeting  of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly  under  the  constitu- 
tion adopted  A.  D.  1818,  and  to  carry  out  the  purposes  of  this  act 
the  sum  of  Five  Thousand  Dollars  is  appropriated,  or  so  much  thereof 
as  may  be  necessary,  to  defray  the  expenses  which  may  be  incurred  by 
said  committee,  and  the  comptroller  is  directed  to  draw  his  order  on  the 
treasurer  for  such  expenses  upon  vouchers  approved  by  a  majority  of 
the  members  of  said  committee. 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Passed  March  18. 

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The  following  resolution  was  introduced  by  Senator  House  of  the 
Seventh  District: 

Senate  Joint  Resolution  No.  85.  Resolution  authorizing  the  Pub- 
lication of  Report  of  the  Committee  on  the  General  Assembly  Cen- 
tennial. 

Under  a  suspension  of  the  rules,  the  resolution  was  read  the  third 
time,  and  explained  by  Senator  House  of  the  Seventh  District. 

The  resolution  was  then  passed. 

The  following  is  the  resolution. 
Resolved  by  this  Assembly : 

That  the  comptroller  shall  cause  to  be  printed,  at  the  expense  of  the 
state,  such  number  of  copies  of  the  report  of  the  committee  on  the 
general  assembly  centennial  as  the  board  of  control  shall  determine,  not 
exceeding  thirty-five  hundred  copies. 

Passed  May  6. 

JOURNAL  OF  THE  HOUSE. 

The  following  resolution  was  received  from  the  Senate,  having  been 
passed  and  transmitted  under  a  suspension  of  the  rules : 

Senate  Joint  Resolution  No.  47.  Resolution  concerning  a  Cele- 
bration in  Commemoration  of  the  First  Meeting  of  the  Connecticut 
General  Assembly. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  King  of  Windham,  the  resolution  was  tabled. 

Passed  January  30. 

Senate  Joint  Resolution  No.  47.  Resolution  concerning  a  Cele- 
tion  in  Commemoration  of  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the 
First  Meeting  of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  King  of  Windham,  the  resolution  was  taken  from 
the  table. 

The  resolution  was  then  amended. 

The  resolution  was  then  passed  as  amended,  under  a  suspension  of 
the  rules. 

The  resolution  is  as  follows : 
Resolved  by  this  Assembly : 

That  a  joint  special  committee  consisting  of  three  senators  to  be 
appointed  by  the  president  of  the  Senate  and  six  representatives  to  be 
appointed  by  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  is  hereby 
raised  for  the  purpose  of  preparing  such  legislation  as  it  may  believe 
to  be  necessary  or  suitable,  and  to  introduce  the  same  within  thirty  days 
from  the  passage  hereof,  relating  to  a  legislative  or  public  celebration 
to  be  held  on  the  Seventh  Day  of  May,  1919,  in  commemoration  of  the 
One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  first  meeting  of  the  Connecticut 
General  Assembly: 

The  amendment  is  as  follows : 

Schedule  "A" 

"At  the  end  of  line  two,  strike  out  the  word  '  six,'  and  insert  in  lieu 
thereof  the  word  '  eight \" 

Passed  January  31. 

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The  Speaker  announced  the  following  appointments  to  special 
committee : 

Committee  raised  'by  Senate  Joint  Resolution  No.  47,  concerning  a 
celebration  in  commemoration  of  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of 
the  First  Meeting  of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly : 
Messrs.  Davis  of  Danbury, 
Hall  of  Wellington, 
Eaton  of  North  Haven, 
Wright  of  Pomfret, 
Barnes  of  Southington, 
Alvord  of  Torrington, 
Geary  of  Waterford, 
Caine  of  Naugatuck. 
(Re-appointed  as  House  Committee  to  make  arrangements  for  a 
public  celebration.) 
Passed  February  20. 

Senate  Joint  Resolution  No.  47.  (See  House  Journal,  January 
31st.)  The  report  of  the  Joint  Special  Committee  on  a  resolution 
concerning  a  celebration  in  commemoration  of  the  one  hundredth  anni- 
versary of  the  first  meeting  of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly, 
recommending  the  rejection  of  the  resolution  and  the  passage  of  a  sub- 
stitute bill  therefor  and  the  reference  of  the  substitute  bill  to  the  com- 
mittee on  Appropriations,  was  received  from  the  Senate,  the  substitute 
bill  having  been  so  referred,  and  the  report  of  the  committee  accepted. 

The  House  concurred  in  the  action  of  the  Senate. 

Passed  March  13. 

Senate  Joint  Resolution  No.  47.  (See  House  Journal,  March 
13th.)  The  report  of  the  committee  on  Appropriations,  on  a  resolution 
concerning  a  Celebration  in  Commemoration  of  the  One  Hundredth 
Anniversary  of  the  First  Meeting  of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly, 
recommending  the  rejection  of  the  resolution  and  the  passage  of  a  sub- 
stitute bill  therefor  (Senate  Bill  No.  553,  entitled  "  An  Act  authorizing 
a  Celebration  in  Commemoration  of  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary 
of  the  First  Meeting  of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly"),  was 
received  from  the  Senate,  the  bill  having  been  passed,  under  a  suspen- 
sion of  the  rules,  and  the  report  of  the  committee  accepted. 

Under  a  suspension  of  the  rules,  the  substitute  bill  was  read  the 
third  time,  and  explained  by  Mr.  Davis  of  Danbury. 

The  substitute  bill  was  then  passed,  and  the  report  of  the  committee 
accepted,  in  concurrence. 

The  following  is  the  bill : 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  General 
Assembly  convened: 
Section  1.  A  special  committee  consisting  of  three  senators  to  be 
appointed  by  the  President  of  the  Senate  and  eight  representatives  to 
be  appointed  by  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  is  raised 
for  the  purpose  of  making  such  arrangements  as  may  be  suitable  for 

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the  conduct  of  a  public  celebration  to  be  held  on  the  seventh  day  of 
May,  1919,  in  commemoration  of  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of 
the  first  meeting  of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly  under  the  con- 
stitution adopted  A.  D.  181 8,  and  to  carry  out  the  purposes  of  this  act 
and  the  sum  of  Five  Thousand  Dollars  is  appropriated,  or  so  much 
thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  to  defray  the  expenses  which  may  be  in- 
curred by  said  committee,  and  the  comptroller  is  directed  to  draw  this 
order  on  the  treasurer  for  such  expenses  upon  vouchers  approved  by  a 
majority  of  the  members  of  said  committee. 

Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Passed  March  19. 

The  following  resolution  was  received  from  the  Senate,  and  passed, 
under  a  suspension  of  the  rules,  in  concurrence : 

Senate  Joint  Resolution  No.  85.  Resolution  authorizing  the  Pub- 
lication of  Report  of  the  committee  on  the  General  Assembly  Centen- 
nial. 

The  following  is  the  resolution : 

Resolved  by  this  Assembly: 

That  the  comptroller  shall  cause  to  be  printed,  at  the  expense  of  the 
State,  such  number  of  copies  of  the  report  of  the  committee  on  the 
General  Assembly  Centennial  as  the  Board  of  Control  shall  determine, 
not  exceeding  thirty-five  hundred  copies. 

Passed  May  6. 


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PRELIMINARY    WORK. 


Special  notices  in  regard  to  the  General  Assembly  Centennial  were 
printed  in  the  "  Legislative  Bulletin  "  throughout  the  session.  The 
first  notice  appeared  January  23rd  and  was  as  follows : 

"  It  is  proposed  that  the  members  of  the  General  Assembly  meet  in  the  House 
at  an  early  date  for  the  purpose  of  considering  the  advisability  of  appointing 
a  special  committee  on  Centennial  of  the  General  Assembly,  under  the  present 
Constitution,  Wednesday,  May  7,  1919,  and  to  take  such  action  as  is  deemed 
proper.  All  members  in  favor  of  the  proposed  Centennial  will  please  see 
William  H.  Taylor,  Compiler  of  the  Pocket  Manual,  for  further  particulars." 

The  first  meeting  of  the  Centennial  Committee,  which  was  later 
appointed,  was  held  at  the  State  Library  March  12th,  and  the  call 
for  adjourned  meetings  appeared  regularly  in  the  Bulletin. 

In  order  to  ascertain  the  names  and  residences  of  all  the  surviving 
state  officers,  senators  and  representatives,  a  circular-letter  was  sent 
by  the  Secretary,  for  the  Committee,  to  all  the  members  of  the  1919 
Legislature,  as  follows : 

"  In  order  that  the  necessary  arrangements  for  the  celebration  of  the  One 
Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Connecticut,  under  our 
present  Constitution,  May  7,  1919,  may  be  made,  your  special  committee 
appointed  to  arrange  for  the  same,  ask  your  immediate  assistance  in  com- 
piling a  list  of  all  those  now  living  who  have  at  any  time  served  either  as 
State   Officials,  or   as   members   or  officials   of   the   General  Assembly. 

In  order  that  such  a  list  may  be  available  for  the  use  of  the  committee 
at  an  early  date,  each  member  of  the  General  Assembly  is  urged  to  write 
upon  the  accompanying  sheet,  the  name,  and  if  possible  the  address,  of  all 
such  State  Officials  and  members  and  officials  of  the  General  Assembly  now 
or  heretofore  residing  in  his  town.  These  lists  should  be  handed  to  the 
Clerks  of  the  Senate  or  House,  or  mailed  as  soon  as  possible  to  the  Secretary 
of  the  Committee,  P.  O.  Box   1242,  Hartford. 

It  is  hoped  that  this,  our  Second  Legislative  General  Reunion,  may  sur- 
pass the  first  one,  held  in  1886,  when  of  the  four  thousand  seven  hundred 
and  eighty-two  reported  as  then  living,  two  thousand  four  hundred  and 
ninty-one  were  present,  as  shown  by  the  official  register  in  the  State  Library. 

Connecticut  expects  every  man  to  do  his  duty." 

The  accompanying  sheet  was  headed: 


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Reproduction  of  the  Invitation  to  the  Centennial 


CENTENNIAL   CONNECTICUT   GENERAL   ASSEMBLY 
Capitol,  Hartford,  Wednesday,  May  7,  1919 


Town  of 


Member  Reporting   

Names  of  living  State  Officers,  and  Members  or  Officials  of  the 
Connecticut  General  Assembly  residing  now  or  heretofore  in  this  town : 


NAME 


State  Officer 
Senator  or  Representative 


POST  OFFICE  ADDRESS 


At  the  bottom  of  the  sheet  was  printed: 

Return  to  Wiliam  Harrison  Taylor,   Secretary,  P.  O.  Box   1242, 

Hartford 

This  circular-letter  was  generously  printed  in  many  newspapers 
throughout  the  state  and  with  the  invaluable  aid  given  by  the  members 
of  the  Legislature,  after  careful  inquiry,  very  accurate  lists  of 
ex-legislators  were  furnished  the  secretary.  A  list  was  received  from 
every  town  in  the  state,  and  to  every  person  on  the  lists  was  mailed  an 
official  invitation  to  the  Centennial. 

The  invitation  is  printed  elsewhere  in  this  report.  Accompanying 
each  invitation  was  a  return  postal,  stamped  and  addressed  on  one 
side  and  on  the  other  side  was  printed  the  following: 


NAME 

TOWN 

P.  0.  ADDRESS 

AGE 

DO   YOU   EXPECT  TO   BE   PRESENT   AT  ANNIVERSARY? 

I  have  served  as  follows :  — 

STATE 

NAME  OF  OFFICE 

OFFICER 

WHEN? 

SENATOR 

FROM  DISTRICT  NO. 

WHEN? 

REPRE- 

FROM  TOWN   OF 

SENTATIVE 

WHEN? 

REMARKS  : 

Please  return  promptly. 
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The  registration  cards  used  on  May  7th  were  the  same,  except 
the  word  "  occupation  "  was  used  in  place  of  the  third  line  and  "  Please 
exchange  this  card  for  official  badge  at  Room  7,  first  floor "  was 
substituted  at  the  bottom  of  the  card. 

On  May  28,  1919,  the  following  letter  was  sent  to  each  of  the 
forty-two  state  officers,  living  1919: 

As  provided  for  by  the  General  Assembly  of  1919,  the  State  Board  of 
Control  yesterday  authorized  the  immediate  publication  of  the  Proceedings 
of  the  Centennial  Exercises  held  at  the  Capitol  on  May  7th. 

It  is  planned  to  include  in  this  volume  of  Connecticut  History,  not  only 
the  several  addresses  made  on  that  occassion,  but  also  group  engravings 
of  the  State  Officers.  Thus,  there  will  be  a  group  of  living  Governors,  Sec- 
retaries, Treasurers,  etc.,  with  brief  sketches. 

In  order  that  you,  your  town,  and  your  office  may  be  properly  represented 
in  the  volume,  will  you  not  send  me  at  once  one  of  your  latest  photographs, 
or  advise  me  where  one  may  be  secured,  and  a  brief  biographical  sketch,  or 
tell  me  where  one  may  be  found. 

Thanking  you  for  your  early  attention  and  asking  that  you  will  advise 
me  how  many  copies  of  the  volume  you  would  like  to  receive,  if  available, 
I    remain, 

Very  respectfully, 

WM.  H.  TAYLOR, 

Secretary. 

Other  minor  notices  were  sent  out  to  many  officers  and  members 
of  the  General  Assembly  and  to  the  press  of  the  state. 


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The   One   Hundredth  Anniversary 

of   the 

First  Meeting  of  the  General  Assembly, 

under  the  present  Constitution 
and  the 

Second  General  Legislative  Reunion 

at 

The  Capitol,   Hartford, 

Wednesday,  May  7,  19 19 


Reduced  Reproduction  of  the  Official  Program  of  the  Centennial 


COMMITTEE    ON    CENTENNIAL   CELEBRATION 

Senate  Chairman,  ALBERT  H.  HOUSE,  of  the  7th  District. 
House  Chairman,  SAMUEL  A.  DAVIS,  of  Danbuby. 
Clerk,  FRANK  H.  BARNES,  of  Southixgton. 


Senators,  HARVEY-  P.  BISSELL,  of  the  24th  District. 

CHARLES  C.  HEMENWAY,  of  the  2nd  DiSTBicr. 


Representatives. 

William  H.  Hall,  of  Wellington. 
Robert  O.  Eaton,  of  North  Haven. 
Fayette  L.  Wright,  of  Pomfret. 


Representatives. 

Charles  H.  Alvobd,  of  Torrington. 
John  C.  Geary,  of  Waterford. 
Martin  L.  Caine,  of  Naupatuck. 


WILLIAM  HARRISON  TAYLOR,  P.  0.  Box  1242,  Hartford,  Seeretai 


RECEPTION   COMMITTEE 

To  receive  ex  State  officials  —  Hon.  Marcus  H.  Holeonib; 
Governor;  Hon.  Clifford  B.  Wilson.  Lieutenant-Governor; 
Hon.  Frederick  L.  Perry,  Secretary;  Hon.  G.  Harold  Gilpatrio, 
Treasurer;  Hon.  Morris  C.  Webeter,  Comptroller;  Hon.  Frank 
E    Healy,  Attorney-General. 

To  receive  ex-Senators  —  The  members  of  the  Senate 

To  receive  ex-Speakers  —  Hon    James  F    Walsh,   Speaker 

To  receive  ex-Chaplains  —  Rev.  Charles  H.  Puffer,  Chap- 
lain of  the  Senate;  Rev  Homer  W.  Hildreth,  Chaplain  of  the 
Horse. 

To  receive  ex-Clerks  —  Edward  J  Kenealy,  Clerk  of  the 
Senate;  Leo  J  Noonan,  Assistant  Clerk  of  the  Senate;  W. 
Arthur  Countryman,  Jr.,  Clerk  of  the  House;  J.  Frederick 
Baker,   Assistant   Clerk  of  the  House 

To   receive  ex-Represtnta-tives — 

Hartford  County  Messrs  Stevens  of  Berlin:  Green  of  Hart 
ford,  Beekwith  of  West  Hartford,  Tumey  of  Windsor,  Ney  of 
Farnnngton,  Brewer  of  East  Hartford 

New  Haven  County:  Messrs  Osborn  of  BranfoTd,  Walter 
of  Cheshire,  Healey  of  Waterbury,  Gaillard  of  New  Haven. 
I  oiitks  of  Wallingford,  Pope  of  Oxfoid 

Fairfield  County       Rev   Mr    Phillips  of  Huntington,  Mes&r 


Shaw  of  Redding,  HuxforJ  of  Stamford,  Morris  of  Newtown, 
Kenealy  of  Stamford,  Bailey  of  Danbury. 

Litchfield  County:  Messrs.  Vincent  of  Kent,  Jones  of  New 
Hartford,  Rudd  of  Salisbury,  Strong  of  Winchester,  Curtiss 
of  Woodbury,  Green  of  New  Milford. 

New  London  County:  Messrs.  Williams  of  Norwich,  Smith 
of  Groton,  Allyn  of  Ledyard,  McNicol  of  Griswcld,  Graham  of 
Lisbon,  Reynolds  of  Lyme. 

Windham  County:  Messrs.  King  of  Windham,  Franklin  of 
Brooklyn,  Dorrance  of  Plainfield,  Haines  of  Pomfret,  Kent 
of  Putnam,  Baker  of  Ashford. 

Middlesex  County:  Messrs.  Emily  of  East  Haddam,  Wil- 
cox of  Middletown,  Gates  of  Old  Saybrook,  Moore  of  Sny- 
brook,  Chittenden  of  Killingworth,  Asman  of  Durham. 

Tolland  County:  Messrs.  Talcott  of  Vernon,  Higgins  of 
Coventry,  Cook  of  Andover,  O'Halloran  of  Stafford,  Fuller 
of  Souiers,  Reed  of  Union. 


RESIDENT  COMMITTEE 
Resident    Committee — Mayor    Richard    J.    Kinsella,    Chair- 
man, Hon.  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  Hon.  Frank  A.  Hagarty,  Hon. 
Edward  L.  Smith.  Hon.  Charles  Hopkins  Clark,  Hon.  Newton 
C     Biainard 


PROGRAM   OF   THE   DAY 


11.00  A.  M.     General  Reception  of  former  State  Officials,  Sen- 


11.30  A.  M. 


.00  Noon 


ators,     Representatives    and 

others    at    the 

Capitol. 

County    Reunions    in    regular 

County    Meeting 

Rooms  as  follows: 

Hartford  County 

Room  52 

3wl  Floor,  West 

New  Haven  County 

Room  21 

2nd  Floor,  East 

New  London  County 

Room  08 

4th  Floor,  East 

11.00  A.  M. 

Fairfield  County 

Room  Gl 

4th  Floor,  East 

Windham   County 

Room  02 

4th  Floor,  East 

Litchfield   County 

Room  65 

4th  Floor,  East 

Middlesex  County 

Room  72 

4th  Floor,  West 

Tolland   County 

Room  70 

4th  Floor,  West 

12.30  to  1.3 

Legislative  Reunions: 
State  Officers  in  their  respective  offices. 
Senators    and    Senate    Officers    in    the    Senate 
Chamber. 

Members  and  Officers  of  the  House  of  Represen 
tatives  in  the  assigned  Committee  Rooms. 

to  1.00  P.  M.  Concert  by  the  Governor's  Foot 
Guard  Band  and  Orchestra.  Other  Musical 
Exercises  during  the  day. 


12.30  to  1.30  P.  M.     Collation  in  South  Corridor  of  Capitol. 


LITERARY  EXERCISES 


On  Capitol  Grounds,  weather  permitting.  —  Otherwise  in  the 
Hall  of  the  House. 

1  30  P    M.     Assemblage  called  to  order 

Senator   Albert   H.   House, 
Chairman  of  the  Centennial  Committee 


1      Prayer 


Rev    Charles  H.  Puffer  of  Stafford, 
Chaplain  of  the  Senate. 


2      Address  of  Welcome 


Hon.  Marcus  H.  Holcomb 

Governor  of  Connecticut 


3      Historical  Address 

Hon,  Simeon  E.  Baldwin 
Ex-Governor  and    Ex  Chief   Justice   of   Connecticut 


4.  Poem   "  The   Spirit   of   Connecticut,    '  The   Constitution 

State.' " 

Herbert  Randall 
of  Hartford. 

5.  Addrees  "Capitals  and  State  Houses  of  Connecticut." 

Hon.  Charles  Hopkins  Claik 
of  Hartford. 

6.  Address  "The  Senate." 

Hon.  Clifford  B.  Wilson 
Lieutenant-Governor  of  Connecticut 
7     Address  "  The  House." 

Hon  James  F.  Walsh 
Speaker  of  the  House. 
8.    Addresses  and  Letters  from  Senior  State  Officers,  Sena- 
tors, Representatives  and  others. 
9      Singing  "America." 


MEETING  ROOMS  AND  YEARS  OF  REUNIONS 


State  Officers  In  Their  Respective  Rooms 

Senators  In  Senate  Chamber 

Speakers  In  Speakers'  Room 

Clerks  and  Chaplains   In  Room  33,  2nd  Floor,  West  Side 

County  Meetings  In  County  Rooms 

Official  Badges  In  Room  7,  1st  Floor,  East  Side 

Constitutional  Convention 

1902  In  Room  23,  2nd  Flocr,  fcact  Side 
Legislatures  to  1899  In  Room  21,  2nd  Floor,  Eaet  Side 
Legislature    of    1399  In  Room  74,  4th    Floor,  West  Side 


Legislature  of  1901  In  Room  48,  3rd  Floor,  East  Side 
1903  In  Room  79,  4th  Floor,  West  Side 
190")  In  Room  52,  3rd  Floor,  East  Side 
1907  In  Room  60,  4th  Floor,  East  Side 
1909  In  Room  65,  4th  Floor,  East  Side 
1911  In  Room  62,  4th  Floor,  East  Side 
1913  In  Room  61,  4th  Floor,  East  Side 
1915  In  Room  70,  4th  Floor,  East  Side 
1917  In  Room  72,  4th  Floor  West  Side 
1919  In  Hall  of  Hcuse 


IMPORTANT  ANNOUNCEMENT 

Cards  to  be  rilled  out  by  each  State  Officer,  member,  and  others  attending  the 
celebration  will  be  found  in  each  County  Meeting  Room  and  are  to  be'exchanged  at 
Room  7,  first  floor,  East  side,  for  the  Official  Badge. 

It  is  important  that  EVERY  one  concerned  attend  to  this  matter,  as  the  names, 
and  records  of  all  those  attending  are  to  be  compiled  and  preserved  in  the  State  Library. 


Make  it  a  Winner 


What  have  you  done  to  ensure  the 
success  of  the  "Victory"  Liberty  Loan? 
This  is,  you  know,  the  finishing  week  of 
the  last  popular  Government  war  loan. 


Did  you  Subscribe?  Or  complacently 
shirk  your  patriotic  duty  and  let  the 
credit  for  the  Loan's  success  go  to  others 
who  now  proudly  wear  the  Button? 


Show  your  Patriotism  NOW  if  ever 
Aid  the  Final  Call  and 

BUY  and  BUY  and  BUY 


GENERAL  LEGISLATIVE  AND 
COUNTY  REUNIONS. 


The  General  Legislative  Reunion  held  at  the  Capitol,  Hartford, 
May  7,  1919,  was  the  second  general  reunion  of  ex-state  officers, 
Senators  and  Representatives  in  the  history  of  Connecticut.  The 
first  general  reunion  was  held  at  the  Capitol  May  5,  1886,  and  was  a 
very  enjoyable  social  occasion.  Ex-Governor  Ho'bart  B.  Bigelow  of 
New  Haven,  was  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  and  George  D. 
Curtis,  of  Hartford,  was  secretary.  The  morning  of  May  7th,  1919, 
the  day  of  the  second  general  reunion,  was  rainy,  and  the  rain  fell 
heavily  during  the  day.  The  program  of  the  day  was,  however,  suc- 
cessfully carried  out.  The  general  reception  and  the  county  reunions 
were  held  as  announced  in  the  official  program,  printed  elsewhere  in 
this  book.  According  to  the  report  of  the  secretaries  of  the  eight 
county  meetings,  and  from  other  sources,  the  following  are  the  names 
of  the  oldest  and  youngest  members  present,  from  their  respective 
counties  and  the  years  they  served  in  the  General  Assmbly : 

Hartford  County  —  Oldest  members,  John  E.  Tryon,  Glastonbury 
(1863  and  1864)  and  William  Bulkeley,  Berlin  (1865  and  1909),  both 
90  years  old;  youngest,  Allen  A.  Hall,  Marlborough,  (1919)  22  years 

old. 

New  Haven  County  —  Oldest  member,  Silas  E.  Jeralds,  Cheshire 

(1895),  89  years  old;  youngest,  Charles  P.  Pope,  Oxford  (1919)  and 

Patrick  J.  Healey,  Waterbury  (191 7  and  1919),  both  31  years  old. 

New  London  County  —  Oldest  member,  Ezra  Briggs,  Voluntown 
(1872  and  1899),  88  years  old;  youngest,  William  M.  McNicol,  Gris- 
wold  (1919)  23  years  old. 

Fairfield  County  —  Oldest  member,  Julius  W.  Knowlton,  Strat- 
ford (1870),  80  years  old;  youngest,  Paul  R.  Connefy,  Redding 
(1919),  23  years  old. 

Windham  County  —  Oldest  member,  William  G.  Anthony,  Scot- 
land (1873),  83  years  old;  youngest,  Raymond  O.  Baker,  Ashford,  23 
years  old. 

Litchfield  County  —  Oldest  member,  Albert  L.  Hodge,  Roxbury 
(1853,  1864,  1865  anci  1875),  96  years  old;  youngest,  Lee  H.  Kellogg, 
Canaan  (1917),  and  Fred  S.  Curtiss,  Woodbury  (1919),  both  29  years 
old. 

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Middlesex  County  —  Oldest  member,  Charles  S.  Hunger,  Essex 
(1889),  83  years  old;  youngest,  Lester  O.  Schriver,  Middlefield 
(1919),  28  years  old. 

Tolland  County  —  Oldest  member,  Stephen  I.  Johnson,  Ellington 
(1911),  92  years  old;  youngest,  Samuel  R.  Woodward,  Bolton  (1917), 
35  years  old. 

In  order  that  the  county  delegations  might  preserve  their  ranks 
and  in  order  that  they  might  be  kept  together,  marshals  were  appointed 
at  the  county  reunions.  They  also  acted  as  ushers  during  the  literary 
exercises  in  the  House. 

The  program  of  the  day  provided  for  a  recess  for  dinner,  from 
12:30  to  1:30  P.  M.  During  this  time,  His  Excellency,  Governor 
Marcus  H.  Holcomb  and  the  other  state  officers  entertained  the  ex- 
state  officers  in  the  old  senate  chamber,  on  the  second  floor  of  the 
Capitol.  An  excellent  collation  was  served ;  all  others  who  attended 
the  Centennial  being  served  a  bountiful  collation  in  the  south  corridor 
of  the  capitol.  The  following  extracts  from  the  complete  reports 
given  by  the  Hartford  daily  papers,  give  additional  details  in  regard 
to  the  centennial  and  the  reunion: 

"  For  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the  Capitol,  if  not  the  state, 
six  men  who  have  served  as  governor  of  Connecticut,  occupied  the 
executive  chambers  yesterday.  For  eighteen  years,  the  government  of 
the  state  was  headed  by  Thomas  M.  Waller  of  New  London,  Morgan 
G.  Bulkeley  of  Hartford,  Simeon  E.  Baldwin  and  Rollin  S.  Woodruff 
of  New  Haven,  Frank  B.  Weeks  of  Middletown  and  Marcus  H.  Hol- 
comb of  Southington,  who  met  yesterday  on  the  occasion  of  the  cen- 
tennial celebration  of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly.  They  found 
that  their  combined  ages  totaled  442  years. 

Perhaps  it  was  due  to  the  old-fashioned  hospitality  of  Governor 
Holcomb,  the  incumbent,  that  the  five  ex-governors  seemed  quite  at 
home  in  their  old  office  as  they  told  reminiscences,  as  did  nearly  2,000 
legislators  and  former  legislators  in  the  lobbies,  brought  together  for 
the  100th  anniversary  of  the  General  Assembly  under  the  existing 
Constitution.  They  were  "  Tom  "  and  "  Rol  "  and  "  Frank  "  and 
"  Morgan  "  to  each  other,  and  "  Marcus  "  turned  the  place  over  to  them 
completely.  Only  four  other  former  governors  of  Connecticut  are 
living,  Phineas  C.  Lounsbury  of  Ridgefield,  O.  Vincent  Coffin  of  Mid- 
dletown, United  States  Senator  George  P.  McLean  of  Simsbury  and 
Henry  Roberts  of  Hartford. 

Men  who  have  had  a  part  in  Connecticut  lawmaking  since  1853 
met  in  the  lobbies  and  talked  over  old  times;  men  who  stood  back  of 
Governor  Buckingham  in  his  vigorous  Civil  War  policy  congratulated 

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men  who  supported  Governor  Holcomb  in  his  forceful  administration 
during  recent  war ;  a  man  who  voted  for  the  first  republican  candidate 
for  President  gave  fatherly  advice  to  men  who  are  prominent  in  the 
party  today  and  some  who  used  to  ride  to  sessions  in  the  old  State 
House  on  horseback  were  whisked  up  to  the  door  of  the  Capitol  that  is 
new  to  them  in  limousines.  Fathers  were  accompanied  by  sons  who 
represented  the  same  towns  that  they  did  in  later  times.  Some  of  them 
were  complete  strangers  in  the  present  Capitol. 

Several  ex-chaplains  and  clerks  of  the  General  Assembly  were 
present. 

At  the  noon  hour  the  girls  from  the  offices  were  present  in  the 
lower  corridors  and  their  voices  helped  in  no  little  way  in  the  com- 
munity sing  which  was  led  by  Charles  Bartlett  of  the  Industrial  depart- 
ment of  the  International  Committee  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  New  York. 
The  girls  also  danced  to  the  popular  airs  while  other  enjoyed  watching 
them.  Mr.  Bartlett  got  upon  a  ladder  and  sang  a  verse  showing  how 
the  song  should  be  sung  and  it  was  surprising  how  quickly  the  crowd 
got  onto  the  correct  expression  and  imitated  him.  Some  of  the  mem- 
bers said  they  could  sing  better  if  the  band  played  "  In  the  Shade  of 
the  Old  Apple  Tree."  They  never  were  very  keen  on  this  new  fangled 
"  K-K-K-Katy "  business.  The  concert  opened  with  the  singing  of 
"  America "  and  was  followed  by  "  Governor  Holcomb's  March ;" 
Overture  from  "  William  Tell ;"  "Ballet  Egyptian ;"  selections  from 
"  Maytime;"  popular  and  patriotic  selections;  "  Swanee  River;"  "  Old 
Black  Joe ;"  "  Madelon ;"  and  many  others.  The  concert  closed  with 
the  singing  of  "  The  Star  Spangled  Banner." 

In  the  main  lobby  on  the  first  floor  a  concert  was  given  by  the  Gov- 
ernor's Foot  Guard  Band  and  Orchestra  from  n  to  I  p.  m.  William 
M.  Redfield,  musical  director,  played  for  the  second  time  his  latest 
composition,  "  Governor  Holcomb's  March."  It  is  a  march  that  bids 
fair  to  have  a  greater  reputation. 

The  lobby  was  crowded  with  the  representatives  who  could  steal 
time  off  from  their  regular  meetings  to  hear  the  band.  The  older  men 
had  front  seats,  and  when  the  old  favorites  as  "  Swanee  River  "  and 
"  Old  Black  Joe  "  were  played  one  could  see  their  heads  and  feet  keep- 
ing time  and  they  joined  in  the  singing. 

"  Welcome "  was  the  word  of  the  Centennial  —  it  was  every- 
where. Throughout  the  Capitol  the  secretary  had  placed  large  red, 
white  and  blue  placards  announcing  a  welcome.  Over  the  chair  of 
Lieutenant  Governor  Clifford  B.  Wilson  burgeoned  a  giant  red,  white 
and  blue  placard,  proclaiming: — 

"  Welcome,  Mr.  Senator !     We're  glad  to  see  you  here." 

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Two  cards  appeared  above  the  speaker's  platform.     They  read : — 

"  Welcome,     Mr.     Representative !      We're    glad    to     see    you    here."     and 
"  Welcome !     Mr.  Representative.     Hope  you're  well  and  happy." 

In  the  dim,  academic  light  over  the  shadowy  door  of  the  speaker's 

room  he  placed  a  mammoth  legend  reading : — 

"  Welcome,    Mr.    Speaker.      All    of    the    members    extend    to    You    their 
heartiest  best  wishes.     Hope  you  will  enjoy  yourself  galore." 

There  was  a  card  for  each  of  the  eight  counties  telling  where  each 

county  had  its  headquarters.     There  were  also  the  following: — 

"  Welcome !  Laugh  and  have  a  joyous  time.     We're  tickled  you're  here." 

"Welcome!  How  do  you  do?     Feeling  fine,  we  hope." 

"  Welcome  !  Ain't  you  glad  you're  here  ? 

"Welcome!  Everybody  have  a  good  time." 

"Welcome!  Everybody    have    a    good    time.      That    means   you." 

"  Welcome !  Three  cheers   for  the  members  of   the   days   of   '  Auld  Lang 

Syne.' " 

"  Welcome !  Remember   it   will   be   your   fault   if   you   don't   have   a   good 

time.     Now  laugh." 

"  Welcome !  Don't  wait   another  hundred   years   for   a   good   time.     Have 

it  now.     See?" 

"  Welcome  !  Hurrah  !     for  the  days  of  'Auld  Lang  Syne.'     Hurrah  !  " 

"Welcome!  'Should  auld  acquaintance  be   forgot?'     NO!" 

"Welcome!  That's  right.     Keep  smiling;   glad  you're  here." 

But  the  secretary's  masterpiece  salutatory  is : — 

"  Welcome !      Tis    a    long    time    before    the    next    centennial.      So    have    a 
good  time  now."  —  Hartford  Courant. 

"  Most  of  the  men  who  have  made  laws  for  the  state  of  Connecti- 
cut in  years  gone  by  and  at  the  present  session  of  the  General  Assembly 
will  bathe  sore  wrists  in  liniment  when  they  arrive  home  tonight. 
Never  in  the  history  of  the  state  were  so  many  hands  shaken  as  at  the 
Capitol  to-day,  when  former  legislators  and  state  officers  gathered  with 
the  present  incumbents  to  celebrate  the  one  hundredth  anniversary 
of  the  first  meeting  of  the  General  Assembly  under  the  present  con- 
stitution. 

Several  hundred  ex-members  of  the  house  and  senate  and  a  num- 
ber of  former  state  officers  came  from  all  parts  of  the  state  for  the  re- 
union. They  spent  several  hours  in  the  morning  shaking  hands  pro- 
miscuously with  one  another  and  telling  one  another  that  it  was  too 
bad  that  it  rained  so  that  the  afternoon  exercises  would  have  to  be  held 
inside,  instead  of  on  the  capitol  grounds  as  planned.  Then  they  shook 
hands  again. 

During  the  afternoon  they  crowded  the  hall  of  the  house  for  the 
"  literary  exercises."  Between  times  they  listened  to  music  by  the 
Governor's  Foot  Guard  band,  shook  hands  again,  sang  army  songs  to 
the  exhortation  of  an  athletic,  arm-waving  Y.  M.  C.  A.  secretary,  shook 
hands  again,  ate  sandwiches  and  salad  and  drank  coffee  for  lunch  at 

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long  tables  in  the  capitol  corridor  and  shook  hands  again.  Then  they 
shook  hands  and  remarked  about  the  weather. 

At  1 1  o'clock,  when  the  exercises  began  with  a  "  general  recep- 
tion "  of  former  members  of  the  General  Assembly  and  of  state  officials, 
the  corridors  of  the  capitol  were  crowded. 

The  band  played  songs  familiar  in  army  camps  and  Charles  Bart- 
lett  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  from  the  heights  of  a  step  ladder,  exhorted  every- 
one present,  including  most  of  the  girls  who  work  in  capitol  offices,  to 
sing.  They  did.  They  made  as  much  noise  as  a  platoon  of  doughboys 
just  back  from  a  ten-mile  hike.  Grizzled  legislators  with  white  beards 
and  young  legislators  without  mustaches  sang,  or  tried  to  sing.  The 
epidemic  of  hand-shaking  interfered  somewhat  with  the  program, 
however. 

County  reunions  were  held  at  1 1  130  and  brought  forth  many 
reminiscences.  At  noon  the  state  officers  acted  as  hosts  to  those  who 
had  formerly  held  the  offices  and  the  senators  to  former  senators  and 
senate  officers.  To  these  reunions,  at  high  noon,  were  added  those 
of  former  members  and  officers  of  the  house,  members  from  each 
session  meeting  together. 

There  was  reference  to  "  Days  of  Auld  Lang  Syne  "  on  the  bul- 
letins posted  by  the  doors  and  the  spirit  of  pleasant  recollection  was  re- 
flected in  the  greetings  and  flow  of  reminiscent  talk  inside.  No  sooner 
would  a  representative  of  former  days  make  his  way  to  the  desk  long 
enough  to  register  his  name  and  age,  and  years  of  service,  than  he 
would  be  swept  into  one  of  the  quickly  changing  groups  and  begin 
with  "  When  I  was  in  the  house  back  in  the  days  when  you  first  came ;" 
then  they  all  were  in  the  conversation  at  once." — Hartford  Times. 

"  Never  in  the  history  of  the  state  of  Connecticut  has  there  been 
joined  together  such  a  gathering  of  legislators  and  politicians  as  those 
who  met  in  the  Capitol  today  to  assist  in  celebrating  the  100th  anni- 
versary of  the  General  Assembly,  under  the  present  constitution. 
There  were  men  there  who  represented  their  towns  and  districts  fifty 
years  ago,  and  also  men  who  have  directed  the  destinies  of  their  parties 
for  the  past  thirty  or  forty  years.  Men  from  every  town  in  the  state 
were  on  hand  to  greet  their  colleagues  of  days  gone  by,  and  the  meet- 
ings in  the  corridors  and  county  rooms  were  sincere  and  enthusiastic. 
Men  who  battled  throughout  days  and  weeks  of  legislatures  of  bygone 
days  clasped  hands  today  and  enjoyed  many  a  laugh  over  incidents 
which  occurred  while  they  were  legislators. 

Many  a  bitter  fight  was,  good  naturedly,  fought  all  over  again,  and 
memories  of  days  long  since  dead,  but  not  forgotten,  were  revived  once 
more.     In  every  corridor  in  every  room,  and  in  every  conceivable  nook 

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in  the  Capitol,  men  could  be  seen  going  over,  in  many  cases  for  the  last 
time,  the  times  they  went  through  in  those  good  old  days. 

All  the  old  legislators  had  their  stories  to  tell.  And  mingling 
among  them  were  present  day  legislators  listening  with  open  ears  and 
dilated  eyes,  wondering  if  all  was  true.  It  was  a  glorious  celebration 
in  many  ways,  and  in  the  north  corridor  one  old  man  at  least  90  years 
of  age,  who,  in  his  prime,  was  considered  one  of  the  best  law  makers 
the  state  had  produced,  demonstrated  his  ability  as  a  jazz  dancer.  The 
crowd  howled  with  delight,  and  he  kept  it  up.  Others  sang  and  danced 
and  hollered  and  whistled  and  made  all  sorts  of  noises.  It  was  the  day 
of  days  at  the  Capitol,  and  everyone  enjoyed  it. 

Everybody  of  any  political  consequence  in  the  state  was  at  the  cele- 
bration. There  were  governors,  and  makers  of  governors.  There 
were  secretaries  of  state,  comptrollers,  senators,  attorney-generals,  rep- 
resentatives, state  central  committeemen,  town  committeemen,  ward 
leaders,  ward  heelers,  just  common  voters,  soldiers,  sailors,  marines, 
yeomanettes,  departmental  clerks,  and  representatives  of  practically 
every  walk  in  life.     It  was  a  big  day.     A  gala  day. — Hartford  Post. 


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LITERARY  EXERCISES 

IN  THE 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES. 


The  literary  exercises  in  the  hall  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
began  soon  after  i  130  p.  m.  Practically  all  the  seats  in  the  hall  were 
taken  by  ex-representatives  and  ex-senators  more  than  70  years  old. 
In  order  that  the  older  members  of  sessions  of  bygone  days  might  have 
seats  to  hear  the  addresses,  marshals  were  stationed  at  two  of  the  doors 
to  act  as  ushers,  the  other  two  doors  being  locked.  In  a  reserved  sec- 
tion in  front  sat  the  former  governors  of  the  state,  former  state  officials 
and  justices  of  the  supreme  court  of  Connecticut  and  the  superior  court 
of  this  state.  After  the  older  members  had  been  seated,  the  four  doors 
were  opened  and  many  who  wished  to  hear  the  addresses  entered.  The 
hall  of  the  House  was  taxed  to  capacity,  with  all  the  aisles  lined  with 
former  legislators,  while  the  gallery  was  also  crowded.  Governor 
Marcus  H.  Holcomb,  Ex-Governor  Simeon  E.  Baldwin  and  the  other 
speakers  entered  the  hall  at  1  45  o'clock  and  were  received  with  en- 
thusiastic applause,  all  present  standing.  There  was  also  long  applause 
when  the  three  former  Governors  entered  and  took  places  reserved  for 
them.  They  were  Governors  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  Rollin  S.  Wood- 
ruff and  Frank  B.  Weeks.  Two  large  baskets  of  flowers  formed  the 
decorations  on  the  speakers'  platform. 

Interspersed  between  the  addresses  was  singing  of  the  following 
numbers :  "  Keep  the  Home  Fires  Burning,"  "  The  Battle  Hymn  of 
the  Republic,"  and  "  Old  Black  Joe."  The  singing  was  led  by  Charles 
Bartlett,  a  prominent  Y.  M.  C.  A.  song  leader.  The  Governor's  Foot 
Guard  orchestra  furnished  the  music. 

Through  the  Speaker  the  Hon.  James  F.  Walsh,  loving  cups  were 
presented,  by  the  state,  to  Chester  R.  Woodford  of  Avon,  104  years 
old,  the  oldest  living  member  of  the  General  Assembly  and  Albert  L. 
Hodge  of  Roxbury,  96  years  old,  the  oldest  living  member  in  point  of 
service.  Mr.  Woodford,  however,  was  not  able  to  attend  the  centen- 
nial, and  Mr.  Hodge,  although  present  at  the  Litchfield  county  reunion, 
did  not  attend  the  exercises  in  the  hall  of  the  house.  The  loving  cups 
after  being  suitably  inscribed,  were  given  to  them  later. 

The  following  are  the  exercises,  in  the  order  they  were  given: 
Assemblage  called  to  order  by  Senator  Albert  H.  House,  Chairman 
of  the  Centennial  Committee. 

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PRAYER. 

Rev.  CHARLES  H.  PUFFER,  of  Stafford, 
.    Chaplain  of  the  Senate. 

Our  Father,  who  art  in  Heaven,  we  thank  Thee  for  the  struggles,, 
the  sacrifices  and  the  successes  of  an  hundred  years.  We  realize  that 
Thou  has  been  wisdom  and  strength  unto  the  land  we  love.  In  these 
days  of  momentous  changes  may  Thy  guidance  be  continued  unto  all 
our  leaders  of  state  and  nation.  Day  by  day  wilt  Thou  renew  Thy 
blessings  unto  the  Governor  of  this  commonwealth,  that  in  all  his 
undertakings  he  may  work  Thy  will.  May  Thine  approval  and  the 
respect  of  the  people  be  unto  him  a  crown  of  joy.  Impart  unto  the 
people  themselves  we  pray  Thee,  knowledge  and  power,  that  they  may 
continue  to  grow  in  culture  and  character.  In  the  name  of  the  Lord. 
Amen. 


ADDRESS  OF  CHAIRMAN. 


Hon.  ALBERT  H.  HOUSE,  of  Windsor, 
Senator  from  the  Seventh  District. 

Gentlemen  of  this  assembly,  the  state  of  Connecticut,  through  its- 
Centennial  Committee  welcomes  you  here  today;  and  when  you  hear 
those  words  "  the  state  of  Connecticut  welcomes  you  "  every  man  here 
is  proud  that  he  lives  in  Connecticut,  the  grandest  state  in  the  Union. 
Not  in  square  miles,  but  by  producing  an  abundance  of  patriotism, 
great  inventors  and  wise  legislators.  The  State  wishes  to  thank  you, 
also  congratulate  the  members  who  have  availed  themselves  of  this 
opportunity  to  celebrate  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  our  legis- 
lature. I  wish  to  thank  you  for  the  privilege,  pleasure  and  honor  of 
presiding  over  this  unprecedented  gathering.  Unprecedented  in  the 
fact  that  85  per  cent,  of  this  assembly  are  over  seventy  years  of  age; 
many  four  score  and  more. 

Several  of  you  legislators  are  sitting  in  the  same  seats  assigned 
you  when  you  represented  your  respective  districts.  For  some  of  us, 
this  may  be  our  last  visit  to  the  Capitol,  but  may  God  spare  you  for 
many  years  so  that  you  can  counsel  and  advise  with  the  younger  men 
who  are  assuming  the  burdens  of  legislative  work.  We  trust  that 
members  of  future  anniversaries  may  look  back  with  the  same  degree 
of  satisfaction  that  you  gentlemen  are  enjoying  today.  Once  more  we 
thank  you  for  your  presence  and  the  duties  that  you  have  performed 
for  this  grand  old  state.  The  first  speaker  needs  no  introduction. 
Suffice  it  to  say  that  he  is  the  greatest  governor  of  the  greatest  state  in 
the  Union.  His  Excellency,  the  Governor,  Honorable  Marcus  H. 
Holcomb. 

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^^^««^^Us^vaJr 


Southington 

Governor  of  Connecticut 


ADDRESS  OF  WELCOME. 


His  Excellency,  MARCUS  H.  HOLCOMB,  of  Southington, 
Governor  of  Connecticut. 

"  I  am  not  going  to  make  an  address,  but  I  am  simply  going  to 
extend  a  welcome  to  you  —  the  members  of  the  House  and  Senate,  and 
the  ex-state  officials  who  are  assembled  here  today.  I  regret  that  the 
weather  is  such  that  all  cannot  be  present.  I  understand  that  these 
seats  are  filled  by  men  60  years  old  or  over.  There  are  several  times 
as  many  ex-senators  and  ex-representatives  who  fill  these  seats  who 
could  not  obtain  entrance.  I  extend  a  glad  and  hearty  welcome  to 
every  one  of  you.  We  are  here  to  celebrate  the  100th  anniversary  of 
the  General  Assembly  of  the  state. 

"  When  we  commenced  this  century  we  had  a  population  of 
275,000  in  the  state.  Now  it  is  five  times  that  number,  and  in  accord- 
ance with  the  estimate  of  the  national  government  about  eight  times 
that  number.  We  have  had,  during  the  last  100  years,  forty  gover- 
nors ;  we  now  have  ten  living  governors  and  ex-governors,  six  of 
whom  are  present.  We  have  had  forty-six  lieutenant  governors,  of 
whom  nine  are  living;  we  have  had  forty  secretaries  of  the  state,  of 
whom  ten  are  living;  we  have  had  forty-two  treasurers,  of  whom  nine 
are  living;  we  have  had  thirty-nine  comptrollers,  of  whom  four  are 
living  —  which  indicates  that  that  office  is  a  more  dangerous  one.  I 
think  that  if  we  go  on  as  has  the  present  Legislature  with  expenditures 
there  will  be  no  need  for  that  office.  We  have  had  seventy  speakers, 
of  whom  eleven  are  living,  and  six  attorney  generals,  all  of  whom  are 
living. 

"  Connecticut  has  been  a  safe,  sane  and  conservative  state.  We 
have  been  known  as  the  land  of  steady  habits,  and  I  have  thought  of 
late  years  that  that  title  was  being  challenged.  I  hope  that  Connecticut 
will  always  remain  the  land  of  steady  habits.  I  congratulate  you  all: 
it  is  not  my  intention  to  detain  you  by  making  any  extended  address. 

"  I  hope  you  will  enjoy  this  occasion  and  as  many  of  you  as  pos- 
sible will  be  able  to  enjoy  the  next  centennial." 


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HISTORICAL  ADDRESS. 


Hon.  SIMEON  E.  BALDWIN,  of  New  Haven, 
Ex-Governor  and  Ex-Chief  Justice  of  Connecticut. 

Every  citizen  of  Connecticut  is  proud  to  belong  to  the  first  com- 
monwealth known  in  the  history  of  mankind  to  have  been  founded  on 
a  social  compact  expressed  in  the  form  of  a  written  Constitution. 

Here,  in  her  original  capital  in  1639,  that  great  charter  of  liberty 
was  presented  and  deliberately  accepted  in  a  free  assembly  of  those 
whom  it  was  thereafter  to  govern.  Two  hundred  and  eighty  years 
have  passed  since  the  freemen  of  Connecticut  took  this  great  step  of 
formally  constituting  themselves  a  public  corporation  for  the  purpose  of 
self-government.  For  that,  they  solemnly  declared,  we  "  do  therefore 
associate  and  conjoin  ourselves  to  be  as  one  Public  State  or  Common- 
wealth." 

What  right  had  they  to  assume  to  exercise  a  power  so  great? 

Every  advance  in  the  law  changes  the  law.  It  makes  something 
unlawful  that  before  was  lawful,  or  something  lawful  that  before  was 
unlawful.  The  "  Fundamental  Orders  "  of  1639  purported  to  create 
an  independent  government  in  and  for  Connecticut.  She  needed  some- 
thing better  than  she  had  to  guard  her  liberties,  and  under  existing 
circumstances  she  was  forced,  herself,  to  supply  the  want.  For  ten 
long  years  there  had  been  no  power  of  Parliament  by  which  such  a  gov- 
ernment could  have  been  created.  The  eleven  years  from  1629  to 
1640  are  known  in  the  history  of  England  as  the  Tyranny.  During 
the  whole  period  no  parliaments  were  called.  The  King  could  have 
granted  no  charter  which  would  have  been  likely  to  satisfy  the  wants 
of  an  English  colony.  What  was  needed  was,  in  the  phrase  of  our 
times,  the  setting  up  of  a  "  self-governing  dominion." 

Connecticut  created,  for  herself,  that  which,  if  events  were  pro- 
pitious, might  stand  alone  and  unaided.  If  the  fast-coming  civil  war 
went  against  the  King,  it  might  find  a  sanction  in  Parliament.  If  the 
monarchy  weathered  the  storm,  the  new  King  might  recognize  and  con- 
firm it. 

The  men  from  whom  the  "  Fundamental  Orders  "  came  were  of 
the  class  of  Englishmen  of  which  John  Pym  was  the  great  leader.  It 
was  he  who  originated  what  Green,   in  his   "  Short  History  of  the 

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Stuart's  portrait  of  Washington  and   Special   Vault  for  exhibiting  and 

protecting   Charter  of  1662  and   Constitution   of  1818   in    Memorial 

Hall,  State  Library,   Hartford 


English  People,"  calls  the  doctrine  of  "  Constitutional  proportion." 
To  him  the  main  organ  of  political  power  was  the  House  of  Commons. 
The  House  of  Lords  could  not  be  suffered  to  claim  an  equal  right  in 
legislation.  The  King  could  not  be  permitted  to  override  its  will. 
The  house  of  legislation  composed  of  representatives  of  the  people, 
must  have  the  power  of  the  people ;  and  the  people  had  all  power. 

Under  the  influence  of  such  theories  of  government  the  "  Fun- 
damental Orders  "  were  framed  and  adopted. 

They  provided  that  "  the  supreme  power  of  the  Commonwealth  " 
should  be  in  the  General  Assembly,  which  might  pass  laws  touching 
any  matter  that  concerned  the  good  of  the  Commonwealth,  except 
election  of  magistrates,  which  was  to  be  done  by  the  whole  body  of 
Freemen. 

For  a  hundred  and  eighty  years  this  continued  to  be  the  policy  of 
Connecticut.  She  wished,  and  she  had,  a  Governor  with  little  power ; 
a  legislature  of  immense  power.  The  courts  were  creations  of  the 
legislature,  and  by  the  legislature  their  judgments  could  be  set  aside. 

We  did  indeed  possess,  from  as  early  a  date  as  1650  our  Magna 
Charta.  It  is  placed  at  the  beginning  of  the  Ludlow  code,  adopted  in 
that  year,  and  was  long  one  of  the  foundation  stones  of  our  legislative 
structure. 

As  originally  drawn,  this  guaranty  of  the  rights  of  the  individual 
against  the  State  was  thus  expressed : 

"  Forasmuch  as  the  free  fruition  of  such  Libberties,  Immunities,  Privi- 
leges, as  Humanity,  Civillity  and  Christianity,  call  for,  as  due  to  euery  man 
in  his  place  and  proportion,  without  Impeachment  and  infringement,  hath 
euer  beene  and  euer  will  bee  the  Tranquillity  and  Stabillity  of  Churches 
and  Commonwealths,  and  the  denyall  or  deprivall  thereof,  the  disturbance  if 
not  ruine  of  both  : — 

It  is  therefore  ordered  by  this  Courte  and  Authority  thereof,  that  no 
mans  life  shall  bee  taken  away,  no  mans  honor  or  good  name  shall  bee 
stained,  no  mans  person  shall  be  arrested,  restrained,  banished,  dismem- 
bered nor  any  way  punnished ;  no  man  shall  bee  deprived  of  his  wife  or 
children,  no  mans  goods  or  estate  shall  bee  taken  away  from  him,  nor  any 
wayes  indamaged,  vnder  colour  of  Law  or  countenance  of  Authority, 
vnless  it  bee  by  the  vertue  or  equity  of  some  express  Law  of  the  Country 
warranting  the  same,  established  by  a  Generall  Courte,  and  sufficiently 
published,  or  in  case  of  the  defect  of  a  Law  in  any  perticular  case,  by 
the  word  of  God."  * 

These  stately  and  sonorous  declarations,  fulfilling  the  office  of  a 
Bill  of  Rights,  were  substantially  copied  from  the  laws  of  Massachu- 
setts, known  as  the  Body  of  Liberties.  They  came  at  the  beginning  of 
their  first  code,  adopted  nine  years  before.  Nathaniel  Ward  of  that 
Colony  was  their  author,  a  minister  who  had  been  bred  originally 
to  the  law. 


*Colonial   Records  of  Connecticut,   1636-1665,   p.    509. 

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But  the  authority  which  set  up  these  guaranties  could  alter  or 
repeal  them.  Without  any  formal  repeal,  it  could  practically  disregard 
them.  It  repeatedly  did.  How  far  it  could  go  in  such  directions  was 
a  matter  resting  in  its  own  discretion. 

Chief  Justice  Swift  published  in  1795  a  general  statement  of  the 
laws  of  Connecticut.  He  regarded  the  Fundamental  Orders  of  1639 
as  occupying,  when  originally  adopted,  the  position  of  a  Constitution, 
and  as  being  confirmed  in  substance  by  the  colonial  charter  obtained 
in  1662  from  Charles  II.  But  he  considered  questions  as  to  the  con- 
formity with  it  of  laws  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  as  .to  be  an- 
swered in  all  ordinary  cases  only  by  the  General  Assembly  itself. 

"  The  legislature,"  lie  remarked,  "  must  be  considered  as  the  supreme 
branch  of  the  government.  Previously  to  their  passing  any  act,  they 
must  consider  and  determine  whether  it  be  compatible  with  the  Consti- 
tution. Being  the  supreme  power,  and  bound  to  judge  with  respect  to 
the  question,  in  the  first  instance,  their  decision  must  be  final  and  con- 
clusive. It  involves  the-  most  manifest  absurdity,  and  is  degrading  to  the 
legislature,  to  admit  the  idea,  that  the  judiciary  may  rejudge  the  same 
question  which  they  have  decided;  and  if  they  are  of  a  different  opinion, 
reverse  the  law,  and  pronounce  it  to  be  a  nullity.  It  is  an  elevation 
of  the  judiciary  over  the  heads  of  the  legislature;  it  vests  them  with  supreme 
power,  and  enables  them  to  repeal  all  the  laws,  and  defeat  all  the  measures 
of  the   government. " 

"  The  legislature  are  not  under  the  controul  or  superintendence  of 
the  judiciary  —  if  they  pass  laws  which  are  unconstitutional,  they  are 
responsible  to  the  people  —  who  may  in  the  course  of  elections  dismiss 
them  from  office,  and  appoint  such  persons  as  will  repeal  such  unconsti- 
tutional acts.  On  this  power  of  the  people  over  the  legislature,  depends 
their  security  against  all  encroachments,  and  not  on  the  vigilance  of  the 
judiciary  department."  * 

These  positions  were  not  sustained  by  public  opinion.  The 
judiciary  asserted,  and  finally  maintained,  its  right  to  determine  the 
constitutionality  of  any  statute  which  might  be  attacked  before  it. 

Ten  years  before,  indeed,  the  Supreme  Court  of  Errors  had  ruled 
against  the  validity  of  a  grant  by  the  General  Assembly  of  land  which 
the  Assembly  had  granted  before  to  other  parties.  It  was  held  void 
so  far  as  it  purported  to  disturb  vested  rights.** 

Before  18 18,  much,  if  not  most,  of  the  more  important  business 
belonging  naturally  to  the  Courts  was  brought  before  the  General 
Assembly.  It  heard  appeals  from  the  Superior  Court.  It  heard 
claims  which  would  not  be  remediable  by  judicial  authority.  It  heard 
chancery  cases  if  they  involved  large  amounts  in  value. 

In  1698  a  law  was  passed  dividing  the  General  Assembly  into  two 
houses.  This  was  followed,  after  a  while,  by  vesting  power  to  hear 
appeals  on  points  of  law  in  the  upper  house  alone.  For  the  disposition 
of  causes  within  their  original  jurisdiction,  both  houses  sat  together  for 
a  joint  hearing,  and  the  principal  part  of  their  sessions  was  thus  em- 
ployed during  a  long  period  of  years.*** 

*  Swift,  System  of  the  Laws  of  Connecticut,  I,  52,  53. 
**The  Symsbury  Case  (1785),  Kirby,  Rep.,  444,  447,  452. 
*-*  Gen.  Stat.,   Rev.   of  1821,   150. 

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The  Constitution  of  1818  was  adopted  mainly  for  the  purpose  of 
setting  up  a  line  of  demarcation  between  the  legislative  and  judicial 
departments  of  the  State  government. 

It  was  proposed  in  the  constitutional  convention,  in  a  report  by 
its  principal  committee,  that  the  powers  of  government  should  be 
divided  into  three  distinct  departments,  none  of  which  should  exercise 
(Section  2)  any  power  properly  belonging  to  either  of  the  others,  ex- 
cept as  should  be  otherwise  expressly  directed  or  permitted. 

This  section  was  struck  out,  without  a  division,  a  plain  indication 
of  a  general  feeling  that  these  departments  should  not  be  kept  abso- 
lutely distinct.  After  the  Constitution  had  been  adopted,  this  feeling 
was  not  without  an  effect  on  the  practice  under  it.  It  was  claimed  by 
many  that  there  was  still  a  reserved  power  in  the  General  Assembly, 
and  that  there  was  no  entire  separation  between  the  legislative  and 
judicial  departments.  The  courts  for  a  time  took  this  view.  In  1831, 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Errors  stated  the  matter  thus : 

"  From  -the  settlement  of  the  State  there  have  been  certain  fundamental 
rules,  by  which  power  has  been  exercised.  These  rules  were  embodied  in  an  in- 
strument, called,  by  some,  a  constitution,  —  by  others,  a  charter.  All 
agree,  that  it  was  the  first  constitution  ever  made  in  Connecticut,  and 
made  too,  by  the  people  themselves.  It  gave  very  extensive  powers  to 
the  legislature,  and  left  too  much  (for  it  left  every  thing  almost)  to  their 
will.  The  constitution  of  1818  professed  to,  and  in  fact  did,  limit  that 
will.  It  adopted  certain  general  principles,  by  a  preamble,  called  a 
declaration  of  rights;  provided  for  the  election  and  appointment  of  certain 
organs  of  the  government,  such  as  the  legislative,  executive  and  judicial 
departments;  and  imposed  upon  them  certain  restraints.  It  found  the 
State  sovereign  and  independent,  with  a  legislative  power  capable  of 
making  all  laws  necessary  for  the  good  of  the  people,  not  forbidden  by 
the  constitution  of  the  United  States,  nor  opposed  to  the  sound  maxims 
of  legislation;  and  it  left  them  in  the  same  condition,  except  so  far  as 
limitations  were  provided."  * 

This  deliverance  was  reaffirmed  on  full  consideration  in  the  case 
of  Wheeler's  Appeal,  in  1877,**  but  twenty  years  later  that  decision 
was  formally  overruled.*** 

Since  1897,  then,  it  may  be  regarded  as  definitely  settled  that  the 
Constitution  of  1818  greatly  diminished  the  powers  previously  vested  in 
the  General  Assembly. 

Half  a  century  later  another  great  constitutional  change  dimin- 
ished them  still  more.  In  1868  the  Fourteenth  Amendment  to  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States  came  into  effect.  It  provided  that  no 
State  should  "  deprive  any  person  of  life,  liberty,  or  property,  without 
due  process  of  law,  nor  deny  to  any  person  within  its  jurisdiction  the 
equal  protection  of  the  laws." 


'Starr  v.  Pease,  8  Conn.  Rep.,  547,  548. 

MS   Conn.   Rep.,   306,   315. 

'Norwalk  Street  Railway  Co.'s  Appeal,  69  Conn.  Rep.,  576,  584,  603. 

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In  construing  this  last  prohibition,  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  holds  that  "  the  equal  protection  of  the  laws  "  is  "  a 
pledge  of  the  protection  of  equal  laws."  * 

The  General  Assembly,  then,  which  celebrates  this  centennial,  is  a 
less  powerful  body  than  the  General  Assembly  of  1639,  when  it  was 
originally  constituted;  or  of  1662,  when  Connecticut  received  her 
charter;  or  of  1776,  when  she  declared  her  independence;  or  of  1789, 
when  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  went  into  effect;  or  of 
1868,  when  the  scope  of  that  Constitution  was  so  greatly  extended  at 
the  cost  of  the  State  legislatures. 

The  men  to  whom  it  owes  its  origin  gave  it  what  their  successors 
have  deemed  a  disproportionate  share  of  public  authority.  For  a  few 
years  in  the  era  of  the  Revolution,  from  1776  to  1789,  it  was  subject 
to  no  constitutional  restraints.  From  1789  to  181 8  it  was  subject  to 
few.     From  1818  to  19 18  it  was  subject  to  many. 

Thirty-six  times  in  that  century  we  have  amended  our  Constitu- 
tion; and  nearly  half  of  all  the  changes  thus  wrought  have  trenched 
in  some  way  on  the  powers  of  the  General  Assembly. 

The  Romans  had  a  saying  that  the  times  change  and  we  are 
changed  with  them.  It  is  so  with  governments.  Change  is  the  ex- 
pression of  vitality.  By  frequent  change  the  General  Assembly  of 
Connecticut  has  been  kept  abreast  of  the  general  world  movement 
towards  higher  ideals  of  legal  right  and  social  good.  We  have  examined 
many  propositions  put  forward  as  calculated  to  advance  them,  which 
after  close  scrutiny  have  been  finally  rejected. 

One  of  these  it  is  especially  fitting  to  remember  on  this  occasion. 
It  is  that  respecting  the  initiative  and  the  referendum. 

Connecticut  invented  the  referendum**  but  she  has  confined  it  to 
the  consideration  of  changes  in  her  Constitution.  She  has  not  adopted 
the  initiative,  and  it  is  because  she  has  preferred  to  abide  by  the  original 
form  of  Anglo-Saxon  government, —  that  in  which  the  people  speak  by 
their  chosen  representatives,  meeting  face  to  face  for  discussion  and 
deliberation. 

Connecticut  is  a  State  which  has,  from  the  first,  made  haste  slowly. 
She  is  rightly  called  the  Land  of  Steady  Habits.  Her  legislation  has 
often  been  tentative.  She  has  experimented  before  coming  to  a  final 
decision.  In  the  words  of  one  of  her  foremost  historians,  "  seldom 
has  any  advance  been  made  until  the  experience  of  a  temporary  Act 
had  explored  the  way  and  found  it  safe."*** 


Yick  Wo  v.  Hopkins,  118  U.  S.  Rep.,  356,  369. 
Thayer,  Cases  on  Constitutional  Law,  I,  220,  221. 
Preface  to  Vol.  I,   Conn.   Rep.,  xxvi. 

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Things  are  not  always  what  they  seem.  Epictetus,  in  his  discourse 
on  combating  semblances,  says: 

"  Be  not  hurried  away  by  excitement,  but  say,  '  Semblance,  wait  for 
me  a  little.  Let  me  see  what  you  are  and  what  you  represent.  Let  me 
try    you.'  " 

Such,  as  a  rule,  has  been  the  philosophy  of  Connecticut  legislation. 

Rousseau,  in  his  Du  Contrat  Social,  says  that  "  the  legislative 
power  is  the  heart  of  the  State."  If  he  had  known,  when  writing  that 
treatise,  that  more  than  a  hundred  years  before,  on  the  banks  of  the 
Connecticut,  a  new  commonwealth  had  been  in  fact  set  up  by  a  social 
contract,  he  would  have  been  glad  to  find  his  theories  supported  in  the 
New  World.  The  freemen  of  Connecticut  had  indeed  made  their 
legislature  the  heart  of  their  government. 

They  considered  an  election  to  it  to  be  so  great  an  honor  that  no 
one  should  publicly  offer  himself  as  a  candidate.  It  was  to  be  pre- 
sumed, they  thought,  that  the  best  men  would  be  chosen  because  they 
were  the  best.  Until  the  close  of  the  eighteenth  century  a  nomination 
to  either  house  of  the  General  Assembly  was  never  sought.  Chief 
Justice  Swift,  writing  in  1795,  alludes  thus  to  this  ancient  custom: 

"  In  this  State,  no  instance  has  ever  been  known  where  a  person  has 
appeared  as  a  public  candidate,  and  solicited  the  suffrages  of  the  freemen, 
for  a  place  in  the  legislature.  Should  any  person  have  the  effrontery  or 
folly  to  make  such  an  attempt,  he  may  be  assured  of  meeting  with  the 
general  contempt,  an  indignation  of  the  people,  and  of  throwing  an  in- 
superable bar  in  the  way  of  attaining  the  object  of  his  pursuit."* 

Public  opinion  no  longer  supports  any  such  rule  of  political  con- 
duct. It  could  only  be  suitable  for  a  small  and  homogeneous  State,  in 
which  men  of  any  special  prominence  were  personally  known  to  a  large 
proportion  of  the  inhabitants,  and  re-elections  were  usual. 

From  the  first  they  had  been  usual  in  Connecticut.  Only  three 
men  held  the  place  of  recording  officer  of  the  State  and  of  the  General 
Assembly  from  171 3  to  1800.  They  were  father,  son  and  grandson, 
each  annually  re-elected;  and  the  term  of  the  last  was  only  ended  by 
his  resignation,  when  he  turned  it  over  to  one  who  held  the  place  for  a 
full  quarter  of  a  century.  Of  the  General  Assembly  itself,  one  man, — 
William  Hillhouse. —  was  a  member  for  over  fifty  years.** 

The  preamble  of  our  Constitution  states  that  the  people  of  Con- 
necticut have  ordained  it  "  in  order  more  effectually  to  define,  secure, 
and  perpetuate  the  liberties,  rights  and  privileges  which  they  have 
derived  from  their  ancestors."  The  Constitutional  Convention  of  IQ02 
proposed  to  substitute  for  this  declaration  of  purpose  these  words: 
"  desiring  to  perpetuate  the  liberties,  rights  and  privileges  which  they 
have  derived  from  their  ancestors."     The  heavy  majority***  by  which 

*  System  of  the  Laws  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  I,  68. 
**  Dwight,  Travels  in  New  England,  I,   291. 
***  21,234,  out  of  a  total  of  31,611. 

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its  proposed  Constitution  was  voted  down  indicates  for  one  thing  that 
the  people  were  not  anxious  for  new  definitions  or  new  securities. 
They  were  content  with  the  old  ones.  They  were  willing  to  let  the 
General  Assembly  go  on  in  its  ancient  course,  with  all  its  amplitude 
of  scope.  They  knew  the  perils  of  close  definitions  of  what  is  or  may 
be  law.  They  wanted  no  securities  against  unwise  legislation  except 
such  as  their  courts  had  always  been  found  adequate  to  supply. 

The  landmarks  in  the  history  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Con- 
necticut are  its  division  into  two  separate  houses  in  1698;  the  change 
from  semi-annual  to  annual  sessions  and  the  stricter  limitation  of  its 
powers,  by  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution  a  hundred  and  twenty  years 
later ;  their  further  reduction,  after  forty  years,  by  the  XlVth  Amend- 
ment to  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States;  the  substitution  in  1828 
of  an  upper  house  elected  by  senatorial  districts  for  one  elected  by  the 
people  at  large;  and  the  change  from  annual  to  biennial  sessions  in  1884. 

During  its  long  life,  few  governments  in  the  world  have  changed 
so  little  as  that  of  Connecticut.  It  is  because  she  had,  from  the  first,  a 
plan  of  political  organization,  suited  to  the  character  of  her  people 
and  her  institutions.  This  gathering  contains  many  who  in  the  past 
have  shared  in  the  active  life  and  work  of  the  General  Assembly  from 
year  to  year.  May  the  century  of  its  existence  which  this  celebration 
opens  find  her  legislators  always  true  to  the  fundamental  principles 
of  the  century  which  it  succeeds;  for  they  are  the  solid  pillars  of 
constitutional  liberty. 


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POEM. 


THE   SPIRIT   OF  CONNECTICUT,   '  THE  CONSTITUTION 

STATE.'  " 

Herbert  Randall,  of  Hartford. 

The  mystic  silence  will  not  yield, 
Its   adamantine  crypts  are   sealed, 
Yet,  as  'twere  dipped   in   opal  gleam, 
My  pencil   fires   with   magic   dream. 
Before  my  eyes  I  seem  to  see 
File  past  a  goodly  company; 
Noiseless  and  swift  as  moonbeams  flow 
The  stately  phantoms  come  and  go. 
A  potent  presence  leads  the  van, 
In  height  and  breadth  of  scope  a  man 
Whom  superstition  could  not  down, 
Nor  legend,  tomahawk,  nor  crown; 
Whose  horoscopic  vision  held, 
Like  prophets  wise,  in  days  of  eld, 
The  everlasting  years  in  range, 
And  all  the  cycles  born  of  change,  — 
The  man  whose  sentiments  we  share,  — 
'Tis  Thomas  Hooker  standing  there! 

But  who  are  these  in  powdered  wig? 

In  pumps  and  buckles,  chaise  and  gig? 

Strong  souls  of  action,  living  yet, 

With  Washington  and  Lafayette, 

Far-seeing  men  who  steered   their  ship 

Bv  psalm-book  and  a  tallow  dip. 

They  come  as  comes  Atlantic's  tide, 

From    mart   and    home-spun    countryside, 

The  potentates  of  vale  and  hill, 

Whose  sceptres  were  a  royal  will ; 

Rough-handed  men  who  did  not  lag, 

Who  welded  spangles  on  a  flag, 

Like   Putnam,   Hale,  and  Ichabod, 

With  pitchfork  for  a  driving-rod; 

Monarchs  of  masonry,  not  creed, 

With  Trumbull,  Ellsworth  in  the  lead, 

Like  sentinels  of  church  and  state, 

Like  flakes  of  fire,  in  high  debate. 

Whose  minds  like  pennons  caught  the  gale, 

Whose  honor  was  a  coat  of  mail; 

Who  figured  with  a  golden  rule, 

And  traded  jungle  for  a  school; 

Who  drove  a  bolt  by  steady  blows, 

Who  planted   nutmegs,   grew  a  rose, 

Swung  back  the  gates  for  what  has  been, 

That  peace  and  thrift  might  enter  in. 

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These   are   the  men   whose   grit   and   dare 

Wrought  Hartford's  skyline  in  the  air, 

Built  yonder  spire  and  yonder  dome, 

Where   Genius    reigns   for   love   and   home. 

Unconquered  hosts  of  God  they  stand, 

Unshaken  by  Time's  shifting  sand, 

Stand  as  The  Oak  shall  ever  stand, 

For  Liberty  and  Native  Land. 

Like   granite   boulders,    self-possessed, 

The  storm-gods  beating  at  the  breast, 

They  towered  to  heights  which  all  men  saw, 

Inscribed   a  governmental   law 

With  quills  like  bayonets  of  gold, 

So  did  a  galaxy  behold 

The  principles  of  higher  truth, 

Which  eddied  on  from  youth  to  youth, 

Who  leaped   to  chaos   from  the  height 

Of  Lincoln's  battlements  of  Right; 

Who  helped  to  dig  Oppression's  grave, 

And  wrench  the  shackles  from  the  slave ; 

Who  spiked  the  cannon,  drank  its  breath, 

Who  seized  the  reins  and  rode  to  death ; 

And  these  the  men  who  'graved  the  name 

Of  Freedom  on  our  Halls  of  Fame. 

And  now  the  warriors  who  died 

But  yesterday —  the  glorified  —  , 

Who  died  for  you,  and  died  for  me, 

E'en  as- a  martyr  on  a  tree, 

Who  spanned  the  nations  as  the  sun 

And  made  us  brothers,  every  one. 

The  men  who  sleep  in  unknown  graves, 

Where  halcyon-calm  forever  laves 

Their  sacred  dust  with  deep  content, 

While  rainbows  arch  the  way  they  went; 

The  men  who  grappled  with  despair, 

Defied  the  hounds  of  sea  and  air, 

And   more !     From  peaks  where   winds   unfurled, 

They  flung  The  Colors  'round  the  world! 

But  hush  !  in  grassy  ambuscade 

My  ghosts  of  phantasy  now  fade, 

Hither  and  thither,  to  and  fro, 

My  soundless  dream-waves  ebb  and  flow, 

And  some  are  lost  in  trailing  night, 

And  some  are  lost  in  Flanders'  light. 

Three  hundred  years  by  magnets  led, 
Two  hundred  years,  and  what  is  said? 
A  century,  and  what  are  we? 
As  children  at  our  mother's  knee, 
Atoms  of  thought,  forged  from  the  plate 
From  which  a  people  forged  a  state; 
But  each  a  'scutcheon  on  the  shield 
Which  blazons  life's  old  battle-field, 
The  dust  still  crumbling,  as  it  will, 
The  mills  of  Progress  grinding  still, 
We  plough,  we  sow,  we  reap,  and  then  — 
"  God  rest  ye,  merry  gentlemen  !  " 


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State  Houses  of  Connecticut 


ADDRESS 

"  CAPITALS  AND  STATE  HOUSES  OF  CONNECTICUT." 

Hon  CHARLES  HOPKINS  CLARK, 

Editor  of  the  Hartford  Courant. 

Your  Excellency,  Governor  Holcomb,  members  of  the  past, 
present  and  future  General  Assemblies,  and  others :  — 

My  subject  is  the  Capitals  and  Statehouses  of  Connecticut.  Many 
of  the  states  of  the  Union  have  shifted  the  seat  of  government.  New 
York  City  was  the  capital  of  its  state  when  it  was  also  the  capital 
of  the  nation  at  the  time  of  Washington's  inauguration  as  our  first 
President.  In  1797  Albany  became  the  capital.  So  Pennsylvania, 
after  an  agitation  that  lasted  from  1783  to  1812,  shifted  from  Phila- 
delphia to  Harrisburg.  Georgia  began  with  Savannah  and  ran  the 
circuit  from  there  to  Louisville  and  Milledgeville  and  finally  Atlanta. 
Ohio  had  had  three  or  four  capitals  by  the  time  she  decided  on 
Columbus.  And  a  dozen  other  states  have  similar  stories,  but  only 
Connecticut  and  Rhode  Island,  so  far  as  I  can  ascertain,  had  two 
capitals  at  the  same  time.     Rhode  Island  came  down  to  one  in  1900. 

Our  Connecticut  experience  begins  with  Hartford  for  sixty-two 
years  the  sole  capital.  Then  for  175  years  Hartford  and  New  Haven 
were  both  capitals,  and  in  1873  a  l°n&  struggle  ended  in  making 
Hartford  again  the  only  capital.  The  Fundamental  Orders,  which 
Governor  Baldwin  has  so  fully  described,  were  adopted  in  the  meet- 
ing-house of  Thomas  Hooker,  and  there  also  the  General  Assembly 
held  its  sessions,  so  that  this  primitive  structure  was  the  first  state- 
house  in  Connecticut. 

New  Haven  was  established  about  the  same  time  as  Connecticut, 
but  under  a  theocratic  rather  than  democratic  form  of  government. 
Both  seem  to  have  felt  that  neither  had  direct  authority  from  England. 
These  were  settlements  rather  than  colonies.  New  Haven  sent  a 
delegate  to  Charles  I.  in  1645  to  ask  for  a  charter,  but  he  was  ship- 
wrecked and  lost  and  the  attempt  was  not  repeated.  In  1661  Con- 
necticut sent  its  governor,  John  Winthrop  of  New  London,  to  Charles 
II,  who  had  just  come  to  the  throne  in  the  joyous    reaction    from 

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repressive  Puritanism,  and  whom  Macaulay  describes  as  having  at 
his  ascension  the  most  enviable  opportunity  of  any  man  in  the  world. 
Before  he  had  gone  very  far  in  his  downward  career,  Charles  was 
induced  by  Winthrop  to  sign  the  famous  charter  in  1662.  It  is 
printed  annually  in  the  °  State  Register/'  but  I  question  how  many 
read  it  carefully  enough  to  realize  what  the  object  was  of  this  devout 
and  prayerful  king  whose  name  is  a  byword  for  corruption,  profligacy 
and  dishonor.  Look  it  up  and  you  will  see  that  by  a  single  stroke 
of  his  royal  pen  he  gave  away  this  great  territory,  with  all  its 
magnificent  future,  in  order  to 

"  win  and  invite  the  natives  of  the  country  to  the  knowledge 
and  obedience  of  the  only  true  God  and  Savior  of  mankind, 
and  the  Christian  faith,  which  in  our  royal  intention  is  the 
only  and  principal  end  of  this  plantation." 

This  charter  was  carefully  worded  to  protect  the  independence  that 
the  Fundamental  Orders  prescribed.  Winthrop  was  educated  abroad, 
tactful  and  socially  successful,  and  took  with  him  a  considerable  sum 
of  money  which  he  never  had  to  account  for.  Every-day  modern 
language,  addicted  to  expressive  phrase,  would  call  Winthrop  a 
"  smooth  article,"  for  he  not  only  got  the  charter,  with  all  the  rights 
preserved  that  were  desired,  but  by  it  turned  over  all  the  territory 
of  New  Haven  to  Connecticut,  though  he  had  assured  New  Haven 
that,  if  there  were  to  be  any  merger,  it  should  be  voluntary  on  New 
Haven's  part.  William  Leete  of  Guilford,  governor  of  New  Haven, 
had  secretly  advised  Winthrop  to  include  New  Haven  in  the  charter, 
but,  when  New  Haven  developed  great  indignation,  he,  too,  was 
among  the  indignant.  This  is  not  the  place  to  elaborate  the  long 
quarrel  between  the  two  colonies.  In  1665,  after  thinking  seriously 
of  joining  New  York,  New  Haven  voted  to  join  Connecticut,  if 
Connecticut  insisted,  and  Connecticut  did  insist,  and  at  the  same  time 
the  General  Assembly  of  Connecticut  entered  on  its  public  records  this 
forgiving  statement: 

"  This  court  doth  hereby  declare  that  all  former  actings  that 
have  passed  by  the  former  power  at  New  Haven,  so  far  as 
they  have  concerned  this  colony  whilst  they  stood  as  a  dis- 
tinct colony,  though  they  in  their  own  nature  have  seemed 
uncomfortable  to  us,  yet  they  are  hereby  buried  in  perpetual 
oblivion  never  to  be  called  to  account." 

Although  the  union  took  place  in  1665,  the  General  Assembly  did  not 
meet  in  New  Haven  until  1701.  Meanwhile  a  few  of  the  especially 
dissatisfied,  led  by  Robert  Treat,  removed  to  Newark,  N.  J.,  where  a 
fine  hotel  today  preserves  his  name  for  posterity.    But  he  returned  to 

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Connecticut  in  1676  and  became  governor  of  the  colony.  Ill  feeling 
seems  to  have  faded  away  long  before  1701,  for  Leete  became  an 
assistant  or  senator  as  soon  as  the  union  was  effected,  was  elected 
lieutenant  governor  in  1669,  and  in  1676  was  elected  governor,  and 
he  held  the  office  until  his  death  in  1683.  In  these  days  of  bone-dry 
war  measures  and  of  national  prohibition,  it  may  be  of  passing  interest 
to  notice  that  at  the  first  session  of  the  General  Assembly  held  in 
New  Haven  it  was  voted  to  grant  five  special  licenses  "  to  sell  rum 
but  only  during  the  session  of  this  court."  On  the  same  subject  it 
may  be  mentioned  that  a  few  years  later,  in  1721,  it  was  voted  that 
""  what  shall  be  gained  on  the  impost  for  rum  for  two  years  shall  be 
provided  for  a  rector's  house  for  Yale  College." 

Hartford  and  New  Haven  now,  both  being  seats  of  government, 
became  twin  capitals  and  so  remained  until  the  amendment  of  1873 
went  into  effect.  It  was  immediately  after  the  union  that  the  county 
system  was  established,  with  Hartford,  New  Haven,  New  London 
and  Fairfield  counties. 

The  legislative  body  that  governs  Connecticut  is  described  in 
the  Fundamental  Orders  of  1639,  also  in  the  charter  of  1662,  and  also 
in  the  Constitution  of  18 18  as  the  General  Assembly.  That  has  always 
been  its  comprehensive  title.  As  already  mentioned,  its  first  sessions 
were  held  in  the  Hartford  meeting-house,  which  stood  at  the  east  end 
of  the  green,  long  called  "  Statehouse  Square,"  and  of  later  years 
"  Post  Office  Square."  The  Hartford  green  then  covered  a  large 
territory  that  has  since  been  taken  up  for  business  purposes,  sugges- 
tive, it  has  been  said,  of  the  thrifty  disposition  that  has  helped  to 
make  this  community  prosperous.  All  the  buildings  on  the  present 
State  street  north  of  the  Post  Office  cover  what  was  once  the  Green, 
also  those  on  Central  Row,  and  a  considerable  distance  down  Main 
street.  Both  the  Hartford  Times  and  the  Hartford  Courant  are  pub- 
lished on  what  is  said  to  have  been  the  Green.  New  Haven  has 
guarded  hers  much  more  faithfully. 

The  first  statehouse  was  built  in  Hartford  in  171 9  or  1720,  and 
its  construction  marked  the  first  step  taken  to  dissociate  the  two 
capitals.  A  sum  was  voted  by  the  General  Assembly  to  Hartford  for 
a  statehouse,  and  another  sum  to  New  Haven  for  the  Collegiate  School 
that  was  to  make  the  place  famous.  The  Collegiate  School,  named 
Yale  College  after  receiving  the  gift  from  Elihu  Yale,  had  many 
stirring  experiences  in  its  early  days.  It  was  maintained  in  Killing- 
worth  and  also  in  Saybrook,  and  some  students  were  instructed  at 
Wethersfield.      In   the   general   conflict    for   a   definite   location,    the 


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Hartford  trustees,  with  the  characteristic  Yankee  willingness  of  a. 
Connecticut  community  to  take  what  it  can  get,  put  in  a  bid  to  the 
General  Assembly  for  its  location  here,  and  so  much  contention  was 
developed  that  peace  was  effected  by  these  two  appropriations  —  one 
to  fix  Yale  at  New  Haven,  and  one  for  a  statehouse  at  Hartford. 
The  Hartford  statehouse  thus  built  was  of  wood.  It  stood  on  Main, 
street  directly  in  front  of  where  the  building  now  stands  that  followed 
it.  In  April,  1783,  when  peace  after  the  Revolution  was  being  cele- 
brated, the  cupola  took  fire  but  the  main  building  was  saved,  though 
never  fully  reconstructed.  On  May  19,  1780,  at  the  time  of  the  Dark 
Day,  Abraham  Davenport  was  in  this  statehouse  as  a  senator  from 
Stamford,  an  office  he  held  from  1766  to  1784,  and  his  remarkable 
declaration  has  gone  down  in  history  as  evidence  of  real  Connecticut 
grit  and  character: 

"  I  am  against  an  adjournment.  The  day  of  judgment  is 
either  approaching,  or  it  is  not.  If  it  is  not,  there  is  no 
cause  for  adjournment;  if  it  is,  I  choose  to  be  found  doing 
my  duty.     I  wish  therefore  that  candles  may  be  brought." 

On  January  9,  1788,  in  this  building  a  convention,  presided  over  by 
Matthew  Griswold  of  Lyme,  ratified  the  national  Constitution  of  1787, 
Connecticut  thus  being  the  fifth  state  in  the  line  of  ratifiers.  Eventu- 
ally the  wooden  statehouse  was  removed. 

The  General  Assembly,  when  it  met  in  New  Haven,  held  its 
sessions  for  about  fifty  years  in  the  court  house,  which  was  on  the 
Green  near  the  corner  of  Elm  and  College  streets.  However,  in  1763, 
a  state  house  was  erected  on  Temple  street  also  on  the  Green.  This 
was  used  until  May,  1830,  when  the  last  statehouse  in  that  town  was  put 
up  by  Ithiel  Town,  a  distinguished  Connecticut  architect,  who  designed 
and  built  the  marble  structure  that  for  so  long  stood  about  half  way 
between  the  Center  Church  and  the  west  line  of  the  Green,  covering, 
and  in  construction  uncovering,  much  of  the  ancient  burying  ground. 
In  this  building  Lafayette,  Kossuth,  President  Polk  and  many  others 
were  formally  received  by  the  citizens.  A  pound  for  stray  cattle  was 
maintained  under  the  front  steps  so  long  as  cattle  wandered  through 
the  center  of  the  town.  A  lock-up  was  in  the  cellar.  Town  meetings 
were  held  on  the  ground  floor.  Yale  students  used  to  start  from  the 
statehouse  steps  their  famous  processions  for  the  burial  of  Euclid, 
a  ceremonial  now  abandoned.  Town  also  designed  the  old  city  hall 
in  Hartford,  which  stood  where  the  police  headquarters  are  now,  and 
where  Abraham  Lincoln  spoke  in  i860.  The  last  legislative  session 
in  the  New  Haven  statehouse  was  held  in  1874  when  Charles  R. 
Ingersoll  was  governor.    Later  the  building  was  taken  over  by  various 

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local  organizations,  but  in  1889  it  was  torn  down  after  two  temporary 
injunctions,  prayed  out  by  leading  citizens,  had  been  dissolved  by  the 
courts. 

The  statehouse  in  Hartford  that  was  opened  in  1796,  was  de- 
signed by  Charles  Bulfinch,  designer  of  the  Boston  state  house  and 
the  Capitol  at  Washington.  It  had  a  hard  time  coming  into  its  own. 
The  state  ran  short  of  the  money  needed  to  finish  it  and  in  1793  decided 
to  start  a  lottery  to  raise  the  funds.  There  were  to  be  22,627  tickets 
at  $5  each,  with  prizes  ranging  from  $10  to  $8,000,  the  state  to  have 
12^4  per  cent,  of  the  gross  receipts.  The  subscriptions^  dragged  a 
long  time,  and,  though  prizes  were  awarded,  there  was  nothing  left 
for  the  state.  The  lottery  spirit,  once  so  active,  seems  to  have  run 
its  course  by  that  time,  but  not  so  the  spirit  of  adventure,  for,  in  1795, 
Jeremiah  Halsey  of  Preston  and  Andrew  Ward  of  Guilford,  ancestor 
of  Henry  Ward  Beecher  who  bore  his  name,  offered  to  finish  the 
building,  if  the  state  would  deed  to  them  its  interest  in  the  Gore 
Lands,  so  called,  a  narrow  strip  220  miles  long  and  2T/z  wide,  lying 
between  New  York  and  Pennsylvania.  When  the  agreement  was 
made,  Lemuel  Hopkins  wrote  to  Governor  Wolcott  "  on  the  whole  I 
think  that  if  wild  lands,  with  a  dubious  title,  at  a  vast  distance  and 
covered  with  Indians,  will  erect  our  public  buildings,  school  our 
children,  and  expound  our  Bible,  we  are  a  most  favored  people." 
The  volunteers  did  as  agreed,  and,  though  they  did  not  quite  complete 
the  house,  they  made  it  habitable.  Ward  sold  out  to  Halsey  and  the 
latter  organized  the  Connecticut  Gore  Lands  Co.  and  the  shares  became 
very  valuable.  It  is  said  that  $300,000  worth  were  sold.  Then  came 
a  contention  over  the  title,  and,  though  Connecticut  was  never  defeated 
in  court  in  a  long  succession  of  trials,  still  one  day  the  General 
Assembly  voted  to  surrender  all  title  to  the  Gore  Lands  in  order  to 
preserve  its  territorial  control  of  the  great  Western  Reserve  of  over 
3,000,000  acres,  now  covering  a  rich  part  of  Ohio.  Out  of  this  latter 
land  came  our  school  fund,  but  the  Gore  Land  Company  was  ruined, 
as  were  many  who  were  interested  in  it.  Later  the  Connecticut 
General  Assembly  voted  $10,000  a  year,  1805-8,  for  four  years  to 
help  out  those  who  had  made  the  venture.  A  full  account  of  the  Gore 
Land  transaction  has  been  written  by  Albert  C.  Bates  of  the  Connecti- 
cut Historical  Society. 

Under  a  public-spirited  movement,  started  by  the  Society  of 
Colonial  Dames,  a  fund  was  raised  to  reconstruct  and  preserve  the 
building  to  stand  as  a  reminder  of  its  interesting  history.  There 
the  General  Assembly  met  from  1796  through  1878.  General  LaFay- 
ette  was  ceremoniously  received  there  in  1824,  and,  according  to  story, 

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that  tactful  gentleman,  as  each  person  was  presented,  asked,  "Are 
you  married  ?  "  If  the  answer  was  "  Yes,"  he  was  profuse  with  his 
congratulations,  and,  if  the  answer  was  "  No,"  he  more  concisely 
remarked  "  Lucky  Dog,"  and  everybody  went  away  pleased  with  his 
sympathy  and  good  judgment.  In  the  building  was  held  the  Hartford 
Convention,  which  suffered  probably  beyond  its  liberal  deserts  by 
the  air  of  mystery  spread  over  the  proceedings  at  the  time  and  its 
disregard  of  the  now  world-wide  policy  of  open  covenants  openly 
entered  into.  Here,  too,  was  held  the  constitutional  convention  of 
1818,  whose  work  we  memorialize  today.  Five  presidents  were  cere- 
moniously received  in  the  building.  It  was  when  Mark  Twain  was 
welcoming  Grant,  in  July,  1870,  that  he  assured  the  general  that 
the  old  wooden  bridge  across  the  Connecticut,  which  preceded  the 
splendid  stone  structure  of  today,  was  made  entirely  of  Charter  Oak. 
The  superior  court  met  in  the  building,  the  county  having  contributed 
to  the  construction,  and  many  interesting  trials  were  held  there. 
Perhaps  the  most  famous  was  that  of  a  murderer  named  Done. 
After  Done's  conviction,  Parson  Nathan  Strong  of  the  Center  Church 
preached  his  funeral  sermon  with  the  soon-to-be-deceased  seated  beside 
him  in  the  court  room.  The  parson  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  out 
in  a  distillery  that  he  conducted,  and  for  a  time  could  only  go  out, 
free  from  service  by  the  sheriff,  when  he  went  to  his  church  on 
Sunday  to  preach.  He  seems  to  have  had  a  day  off  on  this  occasion. 
After  the  sermon  a  procession  headed  by  two  companies  of  the  militia 
marched  with  the  man  to  Gallows  Hill,  out  by  where  Trinity  College 
stands,  and  he  was  executed  in  the  presence  of  a  vast  assembly,  and 
thus  ended  a  pleasant  day  in  the  quiet  life  of  Hartford. 

The  first  efforts  to  prevent  the  establishment  of  a  single  capital 
took  the  form  of  bills  to  appropriate  for  new  statehouses  at  both  New 
Haven  and  Hartford,  but  these  did  not  pass.  Hartford  at  various 
times  essayed  amendments  to  fix  the  capital  here,  but  for  a  long  time 
these  failed  to  get  the  required  two-thirds  of  each  branch  at  the  second 
session,  twice  by  a  single  vote  in  the  Senate.  So  far  as  I  can  find  New 
Haven  never  pushed  to  secure  the  single  position,  but  its  influence  was 
always  strong  for  the  two  new  buildings.  In  1869,  Orville  H.  Pratt, 
later  to  become  one  of  the  great  men  of  the  country,  who  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  House  from  Meriden,  offered  an  amendment  to  fix  the  sole 
capital  at  Meriden,  but  that  thoughtful  compromise  did  not  work.  At 
the  legislative  session  of  1872,  the  Senate  gave  only  a  majority  of  one 
vote,  1 1  to  10,  for  the  usual  amendment,  but  the  House  started  another 
on  its  way  and  the  next  May  the  Senate  by  21  to  5  and  the  House  by 
186  to  52  adopted  the  amendment.     It  was  submitted  to  the  people  at 

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the  little  town  elections  in  October  and  carried  by  more  than  6,000 
votes  in  a  total  of  about  67,500.  According  to  the  State  Register,  the 
town  of  Wolcott  did  not  vote.  In  sixteen  towns  the  vote  was  unan- 
imous, 11  for  and  5  against  the  change.  Hartford  bought  the  build- 
ings and  grounds  of  Trinity  College  for  $600,000  and  gave  that  ac- 
quisition and  $500,000  in  cash  to  the  state.  Connecticut  appropriated 
$2,000,000,  and  as  a  result  we  have  this  superb  structure,  all  paid  for 
within  the  appropriation.  It  was  designed  by  R.  M.  Upjohn  of  New 
York.  The  first  plan  carried  a  Gothic  tower  up  where  is  now  the 
dome.  This  change  is  said  to  be  an  architectural  impropriety,  but  its 
development  into  a  brilliant  landmark  has  caused  the  architectural 
points  to  be  forgotten  except,  perhaps,  by  experts. 

Ttie  present  statehouse,  which  might  much  better  be  so  called 
than  the  Capitol,  was  first  formally  occupied  by  the  General  Assembly 
in  1879.  It  is  everywhere  deemed  worthy  of  the  state  it  serves.  It 
stands  on  the  brow  overlooking  Bushnell  Park.  South  of  it  is  the 
unique  and  beautiful  State  Library,  where  Librarian  Godard  is  ac- 
cumulating invaluable  treasures  for  the  future  historians.  Across  the 
river  on  the  west  the  massive  granite  state  armory  stands  guard.  On 
the  east  are  several  of  our  fine  insurance  buildings,  and  more  will  soon 
be  erected  in  that  neighborhood.  Out  on  the  southeast  corner  of  the 
grounds  stands  that  fierce-looking  mortar,  known  as  the  "  Petersburg 
Express,"  used  by  the  First  Connecticut  Heavy  Artillery  at  the  siege 
of  that  Virginia  town.  Can  you  find  a  more  complete  and  welcome 
evidence  of  the  reunion  of  the  states  that  goes  with  the  story  of  the 
great  gun.  The  president  of  one  of  our  insurance  companies,  whose 
office  faces  the  statehouse  and  looks  out  directly  on  the  mortar,  lived  as 
a  boy  in  Petersburg  at  the  time  of  the  siege,  and  he  remembers  being 
taken  down  cellar  there  to  escape  the  shells  it  was  firing  towards  his 
home.  Today  the  gun  is  a  quiet  ornament  and  a  peaceful  curiosity, 
and  the  boy  whose  life  it  imperiled  goes  past  it  every  day  as  if  it  were 
as  harmless  as  any  one  of  the  trees  within  the  grounds.  Inside  the 
building  are  the  battle  flags  of  the  past  and  present,  too.  There,  also, 
is  the  Charter  Oak  chair. 

On  the  southeast  will  soon  be  the  Horace  Bushnell  Memorial  Hall, 
for  which  the  General  Assembly  has  given  a  charter,  further  empha- 
sizing, through  the  public  spirit  and  generosity  of  his  daughter,  Mrs. 
Hillyer,  the  name  of  the  great  man  to  whom  we  all  owe  so 'much. 

Among  the  noteworthy  events  in  the  history  of  this  building  are 
the  famous  deadlock  session  of  189 1,  when  Governor  Bulkeley  bravely 
retained  possession  of  it  and  his  office  amid  the  possibilities  of  serious 
trouble,  the  splendid  reception  of  Senator  Orville  H.  Piatt  on  his  re- 

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election  to  the  Senate,  the  funeral  ceremonies  of  his  long-time  colleague 
and  friend,  General  Joseph  R.  Hawley,  the  long  and  apparently  futile 
session  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1902,  whose  work,  I 
venture,  as  a  humble  member  of  that  body,  to  say  was  rejected  through 
a  misapprehension  of  its  nature. 

Thus  have  I  attempted  to  outline  the  progress  of  Connecticut 
from  the  humble  meetinghouse  on  the  Hartford  Green  to  this  magnifi- 
cent home  on  the  park,  central  alike  to  the  city  and  the  state.  It  is 
safe  to  say  that  all  the  old  jealousies  between  the  former  twin  capitals 
have  died  away.  Hartford  takes  pride  in  Yale  College  and  sends  her 
sons  there  as  soon  as  they  can  get  in,  and  New  Haven  takes  a  cor- 
responding pride  in  the  development  of  Hartford,  which  is  no  longer  a 
single  town,  but  is  the  capital  and  in  a  sense  the  property  of  the  whole 
state,  and  which  always  extends  a  cordial  welcome  to  every  Connecticut 
citizen  and  rejoices  greatly  in  such  a  representative  gathering  as  we 
have  here  today. 


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ADDRESS 


"  THE  SENATE." 

Hon.  CLIFFORD  B.  WILSON, 
Lieutenant-Governor  of  Connecticut. 

The  institution  of  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  as 
we  now  understand  them,  originated  in  the  constitution  adopted  in 
1818.  By  the  provisions  of  this  constitution  the  electors  of  each 
town,  in  April  annually,  after  the  election  of  the  representatives  to 
the  General  Assembly,  brought  in  written  ballots  for  senators.  At  this 
time  these  were  elected  at  large.  The  twelve  receiving  the  largest 
number  of  votes  were  declared  elected.  The  presiding  officer  of  each 
town  meeting  at  which  elections  were  held,  counted  and  declared  the 
votes  for  senators  in  open  meeting.  He  then  prepared  a  list,  gave  one 
to  the  Town  Clerk  and  the  other  to  the  Secretary  of  State  or  Sheriff 
within  ten  days  of  the  election.  If  the  list  were  given  to  the  Sheriff, 
he  in  turn  had  to  file  the  same,  within  fifteen  days  of  such  meeting, 
with  the  Secretary  of  State.  The  State  Treasurer,  Secretary  and 
Comptroller  thereupon  canvassed  the  votes  publicly.  In  the  event  of 
a  tie,  the  House  elected  between  those  receiving  an  equal  number  of 
votes.  The  return  of  votes  and  canvass  had  to  be  submitted  on  the 
first  day  of  the  session  of  the  General  Assembly. 

By  an  amendment  adopted  in  November,  1828,  it  was  provided 
that  the  Senate  should  consist  of  not  less  than  eighteen  nor  more  than 
twenty-four  members.  This  amendment  further  provided  that  the 
General  Assembly  to  be  held  on  the  first  Wednesday  of  May,  1829, 
should  divide  the  state  into  senatorial  districts,  not  less  than  eight  nor 
more  than  twenty-four  in  number.  They  were  to  comprise  contiguous 
territory,  and  no  town  was  to  be  divided  as  between  two  districts. 
The  county  lines  were  to  remain  intact,  and  population  was  to  govern 
in  the  formation  of  the  senatorial  districts.  It  was  further  provided 
that  alterations  of  the  districts  made  thereafter  should  be  based  upon 
the  next  United  States  census  taken  after  the  adoption  of  this 
amendment. 

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It  is,  therefore,  clear  that  it  has  been  the  intention  from  the 
time  of  the  establishment  of  the  senatorial  districts,  that  the  districts 
should  be  as  nearly  equal  numerically,  rather  than  territorially,  as 
possible.  The  senators  were  to  be  elected  from  the  districts  as  above 
outlined.  The  election  of  senators  in  accordance  with  the  districts,  was 
held  in  the  same  manner  as  originally  provided,  with  the  exception 
that  the  canvass  included  the  towns  located  within  each  senatorial 
district. 

In  an  amendment  adopted  in  November,  1836,  it  was  provided 
that  the  election  of  senators  should  be  made  at  the  same  time  as  the 
election  of  Governor  and  other  state  officers. 

Heretofore  the  meeting  places  of  the  General  Assembly  (which 
met  yearly)  had  alternated  between  Hartford  and  New  Haven,  and  the 
meetings  were  held  on  the  first  Wednesday  of  May,  but  by  the  amend- 
ment to  the  constitution  adopted  in  October,  1874,  Hartford  was  se- 
lected as  the  only  regular  meeting  place  for  the  General  Assembly.  Of 
course,  the  Governor,  should  he  deem  the  circumstances  sufficient  to 
warrant,  may  convene  the  General  Assembly  to  meet  in  any  town  in 
the  state. 

The  amendment  adopted  in  October,  1875  provided  for  the  elec- 
tion of  state  officers  and  senators  on  the  first  Monday  of  November, 
1876,  and  annually  thereafter.  By  this  amendment  the  term  of  office 
of  the  state  senators  was  made  two  years  and  was  arrived  at  as  follows : 
At  the  election  held  on  the  first  Monday  in  November,  1876,  the  sen- 
ators from  the  districts  having  even  numbers  were  to  hold  office  for 
two  years,  and  the  senators  from  the  districts  having  odd  numbers 
were  to  hold  office  for  one  year,  from  the  Wednesday  following  the 
first  Monday  of  January,  1877.  It  was  further  provided  by  this 
amendment  that  the  sessions  of  the  General  Assembly  should  com- 
mence on  the  first  Monday  of  January,  1877,  and  annually  thereafter. 

By  an  amendment  adopted  in  October,  1884,  it  was  provided 
that  the  state  officers  and  members  of  the  General  Assembly  should  be 
elected  on  the  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  of  November,  1886, 
and  biennially  thereafter.  It  was  further  provided  that  the  senators 
elected  on  the  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  of  November,  1885, 
should  hold  their  offices  only  until  the  Wednesday  after  the  first  Mon- 
day of  January,  1887. 

By  an  amendment  adopted  in  October,  1901,  the  senate  was  in- 
creased in  number  so  as  to  be  composed  of  not  less  than  twenty-four 
nor  more  than  thirty-six  senators.  It  was  further  provided  that  the 
General  Assembly  of  1903  should  divide  the  state  into  districts,  in 
number  not  less  than  twenty-four  nor  more  than  thirty-six,  and  only 

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one  senator  was  to  be  elected  from  each  district.  The  division  into 
districts  was  to  be  made  according  to  population,  but  no  town  was 
to  be  divided  as  between  two  districts,  county  lines  were  to  remain 
intact,  and  each  county  must  have  at  least  one  senator. 

The  lines  as  laid  out  by  the  General  Assembly  in  1903  are  to 
stand  until  the  census  taken  by  the  United  States  shows  the  necessity 
of  changing  the  line  so  as  to  keep  the  district  as  nearly  equal 
numerically  as  possible. 

All  legislation  must  be  passed  by  both  branches  of  the  General 
Assembly,  whereupon  it  is  then  submitted  to  the  Governor  in  due 
course  for  his  approval  or  disapproval. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  the  changing  attitude  of  the  General 
Assembly.  Many  bills  looking  toward  the  aid,  assistance  and  com- 
fort of  the  individuals  of  the  state  are  now  passed  with  hardly  any 
discussion,  whereas  a  few  years  ago  such  would  provoke  almost  end- 
less debate  and  would  meet  with  invariable  defeat.  To  my  mind  this 
is  a  most  salutary  state  of  affairs. 

"  One  hundred  and  forty-two  years,  the  duration  of  our  present 
national  government,  is  not  a  long  time  in  the  age  of  a  nation.  All 
who  have  come  here  from  other  shores  were  of  necessity  engaged  in 
one  great  thing,  and  that  was  the  eking  out  of  a  livelihood.  We  have 
intensified  our  business  and  commercial  abilities.  This  war  through 
which  we  have  just  passed  triumphantly,  through  the  splendid  deeds 
of  heroism  and  splendid  accomplishment  of  millions  of  true  Americans 
on  land  and  sea,  has  aged  this  country  more  than  all  the  years  of  its 
prior  existence. 

"  We  must,  therefore,  legislate  so  that  the  country  may  be  brought 
in  every  particular  to  the  place  where  the  results  of  the  war  have 
brought  it.  The  enactment  of  the  workmen's  compensation  act,  moth- 
er's pension  bill,  and  the  act  limiting  the  hours  of  employment  for 
women,  were  among  the  first  steps  in  this  direction.  We  must  follow 
this  up  with  similar  legislation  in  order  that  our  citizenry  may  be  made 
happier  and  more  contented  in  their  environment.  No  Bolshevism 
can  possibly  find  root  or  encouragement  in  a  happy  and  contented 
community. 

"  Inasmuch  as  our  government  is  founded  upon  the  principle  that 
it  derives  its  just  powers  from  the  consent  of  the  governed,  we  must 
legislate  to  the  end  that  the  mutual  obligations  between  the  state  and 
the  citizen,  may  be  made  more  real,  and  the  individual  become  an 
object  of  greater  solicitation  on  the  part  of  the  state.  Legislation 
based  upon  this  principle  is  bound  to  result  in  a  finer  Americanism,  a 
greater  national  unity  and  the  elevation  of  the  ideals  of  true  American 
citizenship. 

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"  The  days  immediately  ahead  of  us  are  days  of  wonderful  oppor- 
tunity of  service  in  the  halls  of  legislation  as  well  as  in  our  daily  walks 
of  life.  Let  us,  therefore,  dedicate  ourselves  anew  to  the  traditions 
and  ideals  and  the  institutions  which  the  men  who  have  just  returned 
and  those  who  are  still  on  the  other  side,  have  so  dearly  and  heroically 
preserved  for  us.  Then,  indeed,  will  we  have  rendered  our  full  ser- 
vice to  our  community,  our  state,  and  our  nation  —  the  most  glorious 
nation  on  the  face  of  the  earth." 


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ADDRESS 

"  THE  HOUSE." 

Hon.  JAMES  F.  WALSH,  of  Greenwich, 
Speaker  of  the  House. 

I  have  been  asked  to  speak  upon  the  topic  "  The  House  "  —  The 
House  of  Representatives  of  the  State  of  Connecticut.  To  speak 
concerning  the  lower  half  of  that  great  legislative  body,  which  had 
its  origin  in  the  Fundamental  Orders  adopted  by  the  freemen  of  Wind- 
sor, Hartford  and  Wethersfield  when  they  came  together  here  in  Hart- 
ford in  January  1638-39  and  formulated  those  Eleven  Fundamental 
Orders,  that  document  now  known  as  the  first  written  constitution 
and  which  acknowledged  no  authority  over  the  freemen,  save  that  of 
God. 

A  representation  of  the  scene,  which  attended  the  adoption  and 
signing  of  this  fundmaental  document  has  been  prepared  for  us  in 
the  mural  painting  back  of  the  Judge's  bench  in  our  Supreme  Court 
Room  in  the  monumental  building  across  the  lawn. 

This,  our  first  Constitution,  provided  for  a  General  Court  and  also 
that  each  of  the  three  towns  — Windsor,  Hartford  and  Wethersfield 
should  send  four  of  their  freemen  as  their  deputies  to  every  General 
Court.  It  was  also  provided  that  whatever  other  towns  should  be 
thereafter  added  to  the  jurisdiction,  they  should  send  so  many  deputies 
as  the  Court  should  judge  meet :  "  a  reasonable  proportion  to  the  num- 
ber of  freemen  that  are  in  the  said  towns  being  to  be  attended  therein. " 

It  was  not  until  the  Charter  of  1662  was  secured  from  King  Charles 
II,  however,  that  the  towns  of  Connecticut  had  any  real  royal  sanction 
for  the  government  they  had  created  and  the  liberty  they  had  been 
enjoying  for  twenty-four  years. 

In  this  document  of  Charter  Oak  fame,  now  safely  cared  for  with 
other  archives  in  our  State  Library,  the  principles  found  in  our  first 
written  constitution  were  incorporated  and  other  valuable  provisions 
added.     In  it  our  General  Assembly  first  received  its  name. 

It  may  be  interesting,  right  here,  to  note  that  while  the  Charter 
regulated  the  number  of  representatives  by  fixing  it  at  "  not  exceeding 
two  persons  from  each  place,  town  or  city,"  new  towns  when  they 

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were  excused  from  paying  taxes  to  the  Colony  treasury,  during  the 
trying  days  of  their  first  beginnings,  we  are  told,  sent  no  deputies  to 
the  General  Assembly.  As  taxation  without  representation  has  been 
considered  wrong,  our  fathers  thought  representation  without  taxation 
equally  unjust.  Thus  Litchfield,  settled  about  1720,  sent  no  represen- 
tative until  1740.  So,  too,  in  my  section,  when  the  East  Parish 
of  Greenwich  was  in  1720  exempted  from  public  taxes,  for  four  years, 
it  was  provided  that  the  town  should,  during  that  period,  send  but  one 
deputy  at  public  charge. 

The  three  River  Towns  —  Hartford,  Windsor  and  Wethersfield  — 
have  been  increased  to  168,  and  the  twelve  deputies  of  1638  are  now 
superseded  by  35  Senators  and  258  Representatives,  an  increase  of 
57  members  of  the  House  over  the  membership  of  that  body  one  hun- 
dred years  ago. 

But  the  spirit  of  the  first  settlers  which  inspired  them  to  "  asso- 
ciate and  conjoin  "  themselves  to  be  as  "  one  Public  State  or  Common- 
wealth "  and  "  To  be  guided  and  governed  according  to  such  Laws, 
Rules,  Orders,  and  Decrees  as  shall  be  made,  ordered,  and  decreed  " 
by  their  accredited  representatives  still  persists. 

While  one  by  one  the  early  landmarks  of  our  fathers  have  been 
superseded,  there  are  a  few  buildings  throughout  our  land  which  have 
escaped  and  have  become  the  pride  of  their  centers  and  a  sort  of  shrine 
to  the  World.  Thus  Boston  has  her  Faneuil  Hall,  and  Philadelphia 
her  Independence  Hall.  It  is  a  pleasure  to  here  acknowledge  the 
patriotic  work  being  done  by  the  citizens  of  Hartford  in  fireproofing 
and  restoring  their  old  City  Hall  —  our  old  Capitol  in  which  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  of  Connecticut  met  one  hundred  years  ago.  These 
buildings  are  not  only  beautiful  in  their  architecture,  but  they  are 
beautiful  in  their  history.  Centered  around  them  and  in  them  have 
been  events  which  have  influenced  the  world.  These  buildings  there- 
fore, and  occasions  like  this,  do  not  nor  cannot  belong  to  any  one 
locality,  nor  any  one  generation.  They  are  hallowed  buildings  and 
hallowed  occasions  on  hallowed  ground. 

What  has  been  done  by  "  The  House  "  during  all  the  years  of  its 
ancient  and  honorable  existence?  Many  and  various  are  the  things 
which  it  has  done.  And  many  and  various  are  the  propositions  it 
has  prevented  from  being  done.  Its  record  has  been  an  enviable  one. 
Measures  have  been  enacted  into  law  or  prevented  from  becoming  so 
enacted,  as  the  best  spirit  of  each  decade  seemed  to  require.  The 
House  has  endeavored  to  be  true  to  its  trust,  and  I  believe  has  repre- 
sented the  good  sense  and  sound  judgment  of  its  members  who  have 
been  men  of  ability  and  integrity. 

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I  think  we  do  not  need  to  be  reminded  that  Connecticut  is  no 
longer  a  New  England  State  living  to  herself.  She  is  rather  a 
State  in  New  England  and  a  part  of  a  great  national  civilization.  It 
is  a  thoroughly  modern  state,  teeming  with  modern  life  and  up-to-date 
social  and  industrial  activities. 

In  these  days  of  easy  and  quick  communication  and  transportation 
the  interests  and  welfare  of  our  several  states  are  fast  being  unified. 
It  is  therefore  very  desirable  that  so  far  as  possible  the  laws  of  the 
several  states  along  well  defined  interstate  topics  should  be  uniform. 
The  activities  of  the  legislature  of  no  state  can  be  disregarded.  Each 
locality  and  each  generation  have  always  enacted  or  tried  to  enact 
laws,  based  to  be  sure  upon  the  same  facts,  but  interpreted  from  its 
own  point  of  view  and  in  the  light  of  its  own  civilization. 

Moreover,  our  busy  life  has  so  drawn  us  to  the  once  distant  parts 
of  the  earth  so  frequently  that  we  have  unconsciously  absorbed  some- 
thing of  the  spirit,  life,  and  civilization  of  these  distant  lands  which 
is  being  unconsciously  more  and  more  incorporated  and  mirrored  in 
the  life  and  laws  of  our  own  state.  To  determine  what  part,  if  any,  and 
in  what  form,  the  life,  spirit  and  civilization  of  these  distant  regions 
shall  be  incorporated  into  our  life  and  our  government,  has  been  no 
small  part  of  the  duties  and  trust  placed  upon  and  in  the  Members  of 
our  General  Assembly  of  which  the  House  forms  a  part. 

On  the  other  hand,  we  must  not  forget  that  while  we  are  being 
influenced  by  the  life  and  customs  of  those  coming  into  our  midst, 
the  sons  and  daughters  of  Connecticut  —  imbued  with  the  life  and 
principles  of  a  New  England  ancestry  and  a  Christian  home  —  have 
carried  their  influence  wherever  they  have  gone. 

States  are  but  individuals,  and  like  individuals,  differ  in  occupa- 
tion and  wealth  —  if  not  in  social  and  political  preferment.  Like  in- 
dividuals, then  they  must  conduct  their  several  households  and  fashion 
their  several  establishments,  being  governed  largely,  by  their  business 
and  social  requirements  and  their  financial  abilities. 

Dr.  Horace  Bushnell,  that  patron  saint  of  Connecticut,  in  whose 
honor  the  beautiful  park  north  of  our  Capitol  was  named,  and  to  whose 
memory  there  is  soon  to  be  erected  on  yonder  corner  opposite  these 
Capitol  Grounds,  a  beautiful  and  commodious  auditorium,  as  a  gift 
to  the  citizens  of  the  city  and  the  state  which  he  loved,  when  he  gave 
his  Historical  Estimate  of  Connecticut,  before  our  Legislature  and 
other  invited  guests  in  1851  said: 

"There  is  no  outburst  of  splendor  in  her  (Connecticut's)  history,  no 
glaring  or  obtrusive  prominence  to  attract  the  applause  of  the  multitude.    Her 

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true  merit  and  position  are  discovered  only  by  search;  she  is  seen  only  through 
the  sacred  veil  of  modesty  —  great  only,  in  the  silent  energy  of  worth  and 
benficence.  But  when  she  is  brought  forth  out  of  her  retirement,  instead  of  the 
little,  declining,  undistinguished,  scarecly  distinguishable  state  of  Connecticut, 
you  behold,  rising  to  view,  a  history  of  practical  greatness  and  true  honor; 
illustrious  in  its  beginning;  serious  and  faithful  in  its  progress;  dispensing 
intelligence,  without  the  rewards  of  fame;  heroic  for  the  right,  instigated  by 
no  hope  of  applause ;  independent,  as  not  knowing  how  to  be  otherwise ; 
adorned  with  names  of  wisdom  and  greatness  fit  to  be  revered,  as  long  as  true 
excellence  may  have  a  place  in  the  reverence  of  mankind." 

It  is  to  be  regretted  so  few  of  those  who  have  had  a  part  in  the 
Assemblies  of  former  years  can  be  with  us.  Many  have  of  necessity, 
long  since  passed  on  to  their  reward;  others  are  detained  at  home  by 
reason  of  age  or  health,  but  there  are  a  large  number  who  have  gone 
forth  to  other  and  distant  fields  of  activity  and  can  be  with  us  only  in 
spirit. 

Time  prevents  me  from  mentioning  but  a  very  few  of  those  whose 
services  in  the  House  were  such  as  almost  to  demand  recognition  and 
special  mention  on  an  occasion  like  this.  I  cannot,  however,  refrain 
from  mentioning  the  following,  all  of  whom  have  served  as  Speakers 
of  the  House  during  the  century  we  are  celebrating. 

David  Plant  of  Stratford  who  served  as  Speaker  1819  and  1820, 
and  later  as  Lieutenant  Governor  and  Representative  in  Congress. 

Samuel  A.  Foot  of  Cheshire  and  Henry  W.  Edwards  of  New 
Haven,  both  of  whom  served  Connecticut  as  its  Governor,  Representa- 
tive in  Congress,  and  United  States  Senator. 

LaFayette  S.  Foster  of  Norwich,  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
United  States  Senator  and  Acting  Vice-President  of  the  United  States. 

Orville  H.  Piatt  of  Meriden,  Secretary  of  State,  and  a  leader  for 
many  years  in  the  United  States  Senate. 

William  L.  Storrs  of  Middletown  and  O  rig  en  S.  Seymour  of  Litch- 
field, both  of  whom  served  Connecticut  as  Chief  Justice  and  Repre- 
sentative in  Congress. 

William  W.  Eaton  of  Hartford,  Representative  in  Congress  and 
United  States  Senator. 

Chauncey  F.  Cleveland  of  Hampton,  Governor  and  Representative 
in  Congress. 

Oliver  H.  Perry \  of  Fairfield,  Secretary  of  State. 
Henry  B.  Harrison  of  New  Haven,  Governor. 


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Also: 

Ralph  I.  Ingersoll  of  New  Haven, 
Ebenezer  Young  of  Killingly, 
Samuel  Ingham  of  Saybrook, 
William  W.  Boardman  of  New  Haven, 
Augustus  Brandegee  of  New  London, 
Henry  C.  Deming  of  Hartford, 
John  T.  Wait  of  Norwich, 
William  E.  Simonds  of  Canton, 
John  Q.  Tilson  of  New  Haven, 

all  of  whom  served  as  Representatives  in  Congress. 

Many  of  you  treasure  your  acquaintance  with  — 
Lynde  Harrison  of  New  Haven, 
John  A.  Tibbitts  of  New  London, 
Heusted  W.  R.  Hoyt  of  Greenwich, 
Allan  W.  Paige  of  Huntington, 
John  H.  Perry  and  Elmore  S.  Banks  of  Fairfield, 
Isaac  W.  Brooks  of  Torrington, 
Samuel  Fessenden  of  Stamford, 
Joseph  L.  Barbour  of  Hartford, 
John  H.  Light  of  Norwalk, 
Michael  Kenealy  of  Stamford,  and 
Charles  H.  Briscoe  of  Enfield. 

I  have  already  wearied  you  with  names,  but  we  must  not  go  away 
from  these  Centennial  exercises  believing  or  even  thinking  .  that  all 
good  men  and  patriots  are  dead,  and  that  all  those  not  mentioned  were 
not  good.  To  do  my  subject  justice  would  require  hours  and  days, 
not  minutes. 

But  we  cannot  omit  saluting  our  veteran  member,  Hon.  Chester  R. 
Woodford  of  Avon,  now  in  his  105th  year,  nor  greeting  our  oldest 
living  Ex-Governor,  Hon.  Thomas  M.  Waller  of  New  London,  who 
has  served  as  Secretary  of  State;  Ex-Governor  and  Ex-United  States 
Senator  Hon.  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  still  hale  and  active,  and  United 
States  Senators  Brandegee  and  McLean,  and  their  Associates  in  Con- 
gress, and  Hon.  Marcus  H.  Holcomb  of  Southington,  Ex-Speaker  of 
the  House,  Ex-Attorney  General  and  now  serving  his  third  consecutive 
term  as  Governor  of  his  native  state. 


The  program  closed  with  the  singing  of  "America." 
Then  the  legislators  —  past  and  present  —  many  of  the  older  ones 
leaning  on  the  arms  of  friends,  and  every  one  smiling  a  smile  of  satis- 
faction at  the  end  of  a  perfect  day,  left  the  hall  in  which  they  had 
enacted  important  measures  for  the  state  of  Connecticut,  said  farewells 
in  the  corridors,  and  departed  for  their  homes,  some  of  them  never  to 
meet  again. 

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CONNECTICUT  "  THE  CONSTITUTION  STATE." 


State  Librarian  George  S.  Godard  in  his  report  for  the  two  years 
ended  September  30,  1910,  emphasizes  Connecticut's  unique  position 
as  the  mother  of  Constitutions  as  follows: 

"  The  unique  position  which  Connecticut  holds  in  the  constitutional 
history  of  our  country,  having  formulated  and  adopted  the  "  Funda- 
mental Orders" — the  first  written  constitution  —  Jan.  14,  1638-39, 
entitles  it  to  be  called  "  The  Constitution  State."  In  recognition  of 
this  fundamental  instrument  and  important  action  of  our  fathers  in 
Windsor,  Hartford  and  Wethersfield,  the  central  section  of  the  tile 
floor  of  Memorial  Hall  is  occupied  by  a  historical  tablet  showing  the 
evolution  of  the  seal  of  Connecticut  from  the  early  British  seal  first 
used  by  our  fathers  to  the  seal  now  used,  and  bearing  Thomas 
Hooker's  statement  concerning  constitutional  government  which 
reads  as  follows: 

"  In  matters  of  greater  consequence  which  concern  the  common  good  a 
General  Council  chosen  by  all  to  transact  businesses  which  concern  all  I  con- 
ceive under  favor  most  suitable  to  rule  and  most  safe  for  relief  of  the  whole." 

A  photograph  of  this  historical  tablet  is  made  a  part  of  this  report. 


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Historical  tablet  in  Memorial  Hall  showing  the  evolution  of  the  Public  Seal 
of  Connecticut,  and  Thomas  Hooker's  statement  advocating  a  representative 
government. 

i.  British   Seal.  3.  Second  Connecticut  Colonial  Seal. 

2.  First  Connecticut  Colonial  Seal.       4.  Present  State  Seal. 

STATE  FLAG. 

So  many  inquiries  have  been  received  asking  concerning  the  Con- 
necticut State  Flag,  State  Seal  and  State  Coat  of  Arms,  that  it  has 
seemed  desirable  to  answer  these  several  questions  again  in  this  report. 
I  have  accordingly  had  a  fairly  good  representation  of  the  State  Flag 
made  in  colors  and  showing  the  official  Coat  of  Arms  upon  the  same. 
This  is  made  the  frontispiece  of  this  report.  It  appears  that  it  was  not 
until  1897  that  our  General  Assembly  formally  adopted  a  State  Flag. 
The  following  is  the  description  as  incorporated  in  Section  4889  of  the 
General  Statutes,  Revision  of  1902. 

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§  4889.  Description.  The  following-described  flag  is  the  official  flag  of  the 
state.  The  dimensions  of  the  flag  shall  be  five  feet  and  six  inches  in  length; 
four  feet  four  inches  in  width.  The  flag  shall  be  of  azure  blue  silk,  charged 
with  a  shield  of  rococo  design  of  argent  white  silk,  having  embroidered  in  the 
center  three  grape  vines,  supported  and  bearing  fruit  in  natural  colors.  The 
bordure  to  the  shield  shall  be  embroidered  in  two  colors,  gold  and  silver.  Below 
the  shield  shall  be  a  white  streamer,  cleft  at  each  end,  bordered  by  gold  and 
browns  in  fine  lines,  and  upon  the  streamer  shall  be  embroidered  in  dark  blue 
letters  the  motto  *  Qui  Transtulit  Sustinet " ;  the  whole  design  being  the  arms 
of  the  state. 

PUBLIC  SEAL  OF  CONNECTICUT. 

For  the  information  of  those  interested  in  the  history  and  meaning- 
of  the  Seal  of  our  State,  it  has  seemed  advisable  to  reprint  here  the 
article  upon  this  topic,  which  appeared  in  the  Connecticut  Register  & 
Manual  for  1899,  written  by  the  late  Charles  J.  Hoadly,  LL.D.,  State 
Librarian  of  Connecticut  1855  to  1900. 

"THE  PUBLIC  SEAL  OF  CONNECTICUT. 

"  In  a  paper  hitherto  unprinted,  written  in  1759  by  Roger  Wolcott,  some- 
time Governor,  he  tells  us  that  his  step-father,  Daniel  Clark,  informed  him 
that  the  seal  was  given  to  the  Colony  by  George  Fenwick.  Mr.  Clark  was 
likely  to  be  well  informed  on  the  subject,  for  he  was  born  about  1623,  and 
was  Secretary  of  the  Colony  for  several  years  between  1658  and  1666.  Mr. 
Fenwick  was  agent  for  the  proprietors  of  Connecticut  under  the  Warwick 
patent  of  1631.  Perhaps  he  gave  the  seal  when  the  Colony  bought  of  him  Say- 
brook  Fort,  etc.,  in  1644,  and  it  may  be  that  the  seal  was  used  by  the  said 
proprietors.  There  is  in  the  State  Library  a  pretty  fair  impression  of  this 
seal  on  wax,  affixed  to  the  commission1  of  John  Winthrop  as  magistrate  at 
Nameock  [New  London],  dated  October  27,  1647. 

"  This  seal  represents  a  vineyard  of  fifteen  vines,  supported  and  bearing 
fruit.  Above  the  vines  a  hand  issuing  from  clouds  holds  a  label  with  the 
motto  svstinet  qvi  TRANSTVLiT.  The  seal  is  slightly  oval  in  form  and  has  a 
beaded  border.  There  remain,  besides  the  one  above  mentioned,  but  three 
impressions  of  it  among  the  State  archives ;  all  are  on  wax  and  all  poor. 

"After  the  receipt  of  the  charter,  the  first  General  Assembly  held  under  it, 
October,  1662,  ordered  that  the  seal  that  formerly  was  used  by  the  General 
Court  should  still  remain  and  be  used  as  the  seal  of  this  Colony  until  the  court 
saw  cause  to  the  contrary;  and  the  Secretary  was  to  keep  it  and  use  it  on 
necessary  occasions  for  the  Colony. 

"  In  October,  1662,  the  General  Assembly  laid  claim  to  Westchester  as  being 
within  the  chartered  limits  of  Connecticut,  and  sent,  down  a  copy  of  their  vote 
certified  under  the  colony  seal,  which  is  thus  curiously  described  by  Mr.  Richard 
Mills,  who  had  the  document  in  his  custody :  "  The  signal  of  the  seal  above 
is  come  to  the  inhabitants  of  Westchester,  absolute,  made  in  red  wax ;  the  motto 
I  suppose  to  be  the  arborated  craggy  wilderness  and  the  flying  cloudes." 

"  The  first  printed  revision  of  the  statutes  of  Connecticut,  Cambridge,  1673, 
had,  by  order  of  the  General  Court,  an  impression  of  the  colony  seal  upon 
the  title  page.  All  other  editions  of  the  statutes  during  our  colonial  period  had 
the  royal  arms  instead. 

"  When  Sir  Edmund  Andros  took  the  government  of  the  Colony  in  October, 
1687,  the  public  seal  disappeared.  Gershom  Bulkeley,  in  his  book  Will  and 
Doom,  says  that  "The  Secretary  [John  Allyn],  who  was  well  acquainted  with 
all  the  transactions  of  the  General  Court,  and  very  well  understood  their  mean- 
ing and  intent  in  all,  delivered  their  common  seal  to  Sir  Edmund  Andros." 
Whether  the  seal  was  broken  or  what  became  of  it  we  know  not :  certain  it  is 


\A  photograph  of  this  document  was  published  in  my  report  as  State  Libra- 
rian for  1005-1906. 

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that  the  seal  used  after  the  resumption  of  the  charter  government  in  1689 
differs  considerably  from  the  first  one :  —  it  was  not  so  well  cut,  is  a  trifle 
larger,  the  hand  bends  downward  and  the  motto  reads,  svstinet  qvi  transtvlit. 
I  am  inclined  to  doubt  whether  the  new  seal  had  been  procured  in  1690,  for 
of  five  or  six  impressions  on  commissions  which  I  have  seen,  made  in  that 
year,  all  are  so  very  bad  that  it  would  seem  as  though  some  temporary  sub- 
stitute, made  of  wood,  perhaps,  had  been  used. 

"No  further  change  was  made  until  171 1,  when,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Gov- 
ernor and  Council,  October  25th,  it  was  agreed,  ordered  and  resolved,  that  a 
new  stamp  should  be  made  and  cut  of  the  seal  of  this  Colony,  suitable  for 
sealing  upon  wafers,  and  that  a  press  be  provided,  with  the  necessary  appurte- 
nances for  that  purpose,  as  soon  as  may  be,  at  the  cost  and  charge  of  the 
Colony,  to  be  kept  in  the  Secretary's  office. 

"  This  seal  was  considerably  larger  than  its  predecessors,  measuring  2% 
inches  in  length  and  \Y\  in  breadth.  Instead  of  fifteen  vines  there  are  but 
three,  and  there  is  a  hand,  about  midway  on  the  dexter  side,  pointing  to  them. 
The  motto,  which  is  on  a  label  below  the  vines,  is  qvi  transtvlit  svstinet, 
and  around  the  circumference  is  the  legend,  sigillvm  colonize  connecticensis. 

"In  October,  1747  the  General  Assembly  voted,  that  the  public  seal  of  the 
Colony  be  altered  and  changed  from  the  form  of  an  oval  to  that  of  a  circle, 
and  that  the  same  should  have  cut  and  engraved  upon  it  the  same  inscription, 
motto,  and  device,  that  are  on  the  present  seal,  with  a  correction  of  such  mis- 
takes as  happened  in  the  spelling  and  letters  in  the  inscription  of  the  present 
seal,  and  the  Secretary  was  to  procure  such  alterations.  Nothing  seems  to  have 
been   done. 

"  The  press,  becoming  worn  through  age,  was  replaced  by  a  more  powerful 
one  in  the  Secretary's  office,  and  after  doing  duty  for  some  time  in  the  Treas- 
urer's office,  was  relegated  to  the  cellar,  where  it  was  probably  left  when  the 
State  abandoned  the  old  State  House  in  1879. 

"  Wax  seems  to  have  been  generally  used  until  within  about  a  century.  The 
few  impressions  upon  wafer  preserved  among  the  colonial  documents  are  all 
poor. 

"In  May,  1784,  the  General  Assembly  passed  the  following  resolution: 

" '  Whereas  the  circumscription  of  the  seal  of  this  state  is  improper  and 
inapplicable  to  our  present  constitution,  Resolved  by  this  Assembly,  that  the 
Secretary  be  and  he  is  hereby  empowered  and  directed  to  get  the  same  altered 
from  the  words  as  they  now  stand  to  the  following  inscription  namely  sigill 

REIP.    CONNECTICUTENSIS/  " 

"  The  inscription  was,  however,  cut  without  abbreviation,  though  in  its 
shortened  form  it  appears  in  engravings  of  that  period.  At  the  October  session 
in  1784,  the  new  seal  was  approved  and  ordered  to  be  lodged  with  the  Secretary 
to  be  used  as  the  seal  of  this  State  as  the  law  directs.  The  size  of  this  seal 
was  2Y%  inches  in  length  by  1%  in  breadth.  It  was  engraved  on  a  silver  plate 
soldered  to  a  brass  shoe  or  base.  The  silver  plate  was  given  to  Yale  College 
after  a  new  seal  was  procured,  and  the  brass  base2  is  at  this  moment  serving 
the  writer  as  a  paper  weight. 

"Article  fourth,  section  eighteenth,  of  the  constitution  adopted  in  1818,  de- 
clares that  the  seal  of  the  State  shall  not  be  altered;  but  it  is  singular  that 
neither  in  that  instrument  nor  in  any  law  or  resolution  is  the  seal  ascertained 
or  described.  In  1840,  it  was  resolved,  "That  the  Secretary  of  State,  be  in- 
structed to  ascertain  the  proper  seal  and  bearings  of  this  State,  and  report  to 
the  next  General  Assembly;  and  also,  whether  any  legislature  enactment  is  re- 
quired for  a  proper  description  of  said  seal.  Mr.  Hinman  was  at  that  time 
Secretary,  but,  as  the  subject  would  have  required  considerable  investigation, 
he  made,  as  he  informed  the  writer,  no  report  at  "all. 

"At  present  there  are  two  state  seals  in  use  :•  one  for  sealing  with  wax  or 
wafer,  which  was  procured  in  accordance  with  a  resolution  passed  October, 
1842,  which  directed  that  it  should  be  similar  to  the  one  then  in  use.  The 
resolution  as  originally  drawn  up  provided  that  the  new  seal  might  be  of 
smaller    dimensions    and    circular    instead    of    oval;    but   these    provisions   were 


2  This  base  is  still  in  possession  of  the  State  Library. 

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struck  out  in  the  House  of  Representatives,  probably  upon  constitutional' 
grounds,  and  the  seal  was  made  of  similar  form  and  size  with  the  preceding 
one,  except  that  it  is  a  trifle  broader;  the  workmanship  also  is  better;  there 
are  three  clusters  of  grapes  on  each  vine,  whereas  the  old  one  had  four  on  each 
of  the  upper  and  five  on  the  lower  one.  It  is  engraved  on  brass.  The  hand 
had  been  omitted  from  the  seal  of  1784.  The  other  seal  is  used  for  making  an 
impression  upon  paper  without  the  use  of  wax  or  other  tenacious  substance, 
which  mode  was  declared,  by  an  act  passed  in  1851,  to  be  a  sufficient  sealing. 
This  seal  is  supposed  to  have  been  procured  in  1882,  under  authority  of  a. 
resolve  passed  in  18643. 

"The  armorial  bearings  of  Connecticut  in  heraldic  language  would  be 
blazoned  thus:  Argent,  three  vines  supported  and  fructed  proper:  that  is,  the 
field  is  white  or  silver,  and  the  vines  of  their  natural  colors.  The  blazon  of  the 
first  seal  would  be :  A  field  argent  serne  with  vines  supported  and  fructed 
proper.  In  chief  a  hand  issuing  from  clouds,  proper,  holding  a  label  inscribed 
with  the  motto.  The  number  of  vines  on  the  old  seal  was  doubtless  arbitrary; 
that  on  the  present  seal  has  no  special  significance,  but  is  the  more  usual 
number  when  a  charge  is  repeated. 

"The  first  issue  of  bills  of  credit  was  made  by  Connecticut  in  1709.  The 
General  Assembly  ordered  that  they  should  be  stamped  with  such  stamps  as  the 
Governor  and  Council  should  direct,  and  the  latter  body  at  a  meeting  June 
14,  1709,  directed  that  they  should  be  all  stamped  with  the  arms  of  the  Colony, 
or  such  a  figure  as  was  drawn  in  the  council  book  representing  three  vines. 
On  the  small  bills  issued  in  1777  the  seal  represented  has  but  one  vine,  and  a 
seal  having  but  one  vine  has  been  used  in  the  Secretary's  office  for  sealing 
letters. 

"The  vines  symbolize  the  Colony  brought  over  and  planted  here  in  the 
wilderness.  We  read  in  the  80th  Psalm :  "  Thou  hast  brought  a  vine  out  of 
Egypt;  Thou  hast  cast  out  the  heathen  and  planted  it:  —  in  Latin,  Vineam  de 
Mgypto  transtulisti,  Ejicisti  gentes  et  plantasti  earn;  and  the  motto  expresses- 
our  belief  that  He  who  brought  over  the  vine  continues  to  take  care  of  it  — 
Qui  transtulit  sustinet." 


FUNDAMENTAL  ORDERS,  1638-39. 


"  The  constitutional  history  of  Connecticut  properly  begins  with 
the  adoption,  on  the  fourteenth  of  January,  1638-39,  of  the  '  Funda- 
mental Orders,'  by  which  'the  inhabitants  and  residents  of  Windsor, 
Hartford,  and  Wethersfield '  became  '  associated  and  conjoined  to  be 
as  one  Public  State  or  Commonwealth/  for  the  establishment  of  '  an 
orderly  and  decent  government,  according  to  God,  to  order  and  dispose 
of  the  affairs  of  the  people  at  all  seasons  as  occasion  shall  require.'  " 
(Dr.  Trumbull's  Historical  Notes  on  the  Constitutions.) 


8  The  copper  plates  of  this  seal  having  been  mutilated  by  a  pin  which  became 
imbedded  in  it  was  placed  in  the  corner-stone  of  our  new  State  Library  and 
Supreme  Court  Building  by  me,  May  25,  1009,  with  the  consent  of  the  Secretary 
of  the  State,  a  new  plate  having  been  made  sometime  before." 

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CHARTER  OF  1662 

State  Librarian  C.  J.  Hoadly  in  his  report  in  August  1900,  said: 

"  On  the  14th  of  March,  1661,  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut  voted  to 
petition  the  king  for  the  continuance  and  confirmation  of  such  privileges  and 
liberties  as  were  necessary  for  the  comfortable  and  peaceable  settlement  of  the 
Colony. 

Governor  Winthrop  was  requested  to  act  as  the  agent  for  the  Colony.  He 
sailed  from  New  York  in  July,  1661.  The  letter  of  credit  for  £500  sterling, 
which  he  took  with  him,  may  be  seen  in  the  State  Library.  The  amount  was 
paid  in  wheat  and  pease.  He  succeeded  in  procuring  a  very  liberal  charter, 
which  bears  date  April  23d,  1662. 

The  charter  was  made  in  duplicate  and  sent  in  different  ships.  The  dupli- 
cate probably  arrived  first,  and  was  received  in  Connecticut  in  September,  1662. 
There  are  some  trifling  verbal  differences  between  them,  not,  however,  affecting 
the  sense. 

In  1687  it  became  evident  that  the  Colony  was  likely  to  be  deprived  of  the 
charter,  and  measures  were  taken  accordingly.  There  is  a  very  curious  entry 
on  the  Colonial  Records  in  June  1687,  of  the  production  of  the  (original)  char- 
ter in  court,  and  of  its  being  left  on  the  table  with  the  key  in  the  box  at  the 
adjournment  of  the  Court,  with  no  one  responsible  for  its  safety,  the  committee 
which  had  been  appointed  to  keep  it  being  discharged  by  their  surrendry  of 
it  to  the  Court.  Perhaps  it  was  at  this  time  that  the  charter  was  quietly  taken 
by  Nathaniel  Stanly  and  John  Talcott,  and  concealed  in  the  famous  oak. 

On  the  31st  of  October,  1687,  Sir  Edmund  Andros  came  to  Hartford  to 
receive  the  surrender  of  the  charter.  The  Assembly  met  and  sat  late  at  night. 
The  duplicate  charter  was  brought  forth  and  placed  on  the  table.  Suddenly 
the  lights  were  extinguished,  and  Captain  Joseph  Wadsworth  carried  off  and 
concealed  the  duplicate,  which  he  retained  until  1715,  when  the  Assembly  made 
him  a  grant  for  his  good  service  in  the  matter.  The  one  more  highly  ornamented 
than  the  other,  now  hangs  in  the  Secretary's  office.  What  remains  of  the 
second  copy  may  be  seen  in  the  rooms  of  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society 
at  Hartford.  How  it  was  saved  from  being  cut  up  to  make  the  foundation  of 
a  bonnet  is  told  in  a  note  in  Vol.  4  of  the  Colonial  Records. 

The  charter  continued  to  be  the  basis  of  our  government  until  it  was  super- 
seded by  the  constitution  of  1818." 

The  original  charter,  engrossed  on  parchment  and  enclosed  in  a 
frame  made  in  part  from  the  wood  of  the  tree  which  concealed  it,  now 
hangs  in  a  fire-proof  vault  in  Memorial  Hall,  State  Library. 

The  charter  oak,  ever  an  object  of  affectionate  veneration,  was 
blown  down  in  the  gale  of  August  21,  1856.  It  measured  twenty-one 
feet  in  circumference  seven  feet  above  the  ground,  and  thirty-three  feet 
at  the  base.  A  computation  made  by  Prof,  John  Brocklesby,  from  the 
prostrate  trunk,  fixed  its  age  at  nearly  a  thousand  years,  showing  that 
it  must  have  been  a  lusty  tree  when  the  Normans  conquered  England. 
The  name  has  been  borrowed  by  many  public  and  private  enterprises. 
The  handsome  Charter  Oak  Chair  in  the  Senate  Chamber  attracts  uni- 
versal attention  and  admiration. 


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THE  CONSTITUTION  OF  CONNECTICUT. 


For  the  convenience  of  the  delegates  to  the  Constitutional  Con- 
vention of  1902,  and  all  interested  in  the  study  of  the  present 
Constitution,  Comptroller  Abiram  Chamberlain  had  printed,  in 
December,  1901,  the  following  compilation,  with  this  introduction: 

"  Originally  prepared  by  the  Hon.  Lewis  Sperry,  of  Hartford, 
at  the  request  of  Ex-Governor  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  it  is  now 
reprinted  from  his  last  edition  by  his  permission." 

"  So  much  of  the  original  Constitution  and  amendments  as  has 
become  obsolete,  either  by  subsequent  amendment  or  by  limitation, 
has  been  stricken  out.  The  amendments  still  in  force  have  been 
written  into  the  Constitution,  in  their  proper  places,  and  the  original 
language  of  the  Constitution,  including  even  capitals  and  punctuation, 
has  been  preserved  as  far  as  possible;  so  that  the  draft  herewith 
presented  is  the  Constitution  of  Connecticut  not  only  in  legal  effect 
but  in  its  exact  form  as  it  now  exists." 

PREAMBLE. 

The  people  of  Connecticut  acknowledging  with  gratitude,  the 
good  providence  of  God,  in  having  permitted  them  to  enjoy  a  free 
government,  do,  in  order  more  effectually  to  define,  secure,  and  per- 
petuate the  liberties,  rights  and  privileges  which  they  have  derived 
from  their  ancestors,  hereby,  after  a  careful  consideration  and  revision, 
ordain  and  establish  the  following  Constitution,  and  form  of  civil 
government. 

Article  First. 

DECLARATION  OF  RIGHTS. 

That  the  great  and  essential  principles  of  liberty  and  free  govern- 
ment may  be  recognized  and  established, 

We  Declare, 

Sect.  i.  That  all  men  when  they  form  a  social  compact,  are 
equal  in  rights ;  and  that  no  man  or  set  of  men  are  entitled  to  exclusive 
public  emoluments  or  privileges  from  the  community. 

Sect.  2.  That  all  political  power  is  inherent  in  the  people,  and  all 
free  governments  are  founded  on  their  authority  and  instituted  for 
their  benefit;  and  that  they  have  at  all  times  an  undeniable  and 
indefeasible  right  to  alter  their  form  of  government  in  such  a  manner 
as  they  may  think  expedient. 

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Sect.  3.  The  exercise  and  enjoyment  of  religious  profession 
and  worship,  without  discrimination,  shall  forever  be  free  to  all 
persons  in  this  State,  provided  that  the  right  hereby  declared  and 
established,  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  excuse  acts  of  licentiousness, 
or  to  justify  practices  inconsistent  with  the  peace  and  safety  of  the 
State. 

Sect.  4.  No  preference  shall  be  given  by  law  to  any  Christian 
sect  or  mode  of  worship. 

Sect.  5.  Every  citizen  may  freely  speak,  wrrite  and  publish  his 
sentiments  on  all  subjects,  being  responsible  for  the  abuse  of  that 
liberty. 

Sect.  6.  No  law  shall  ever  be  passed  to  curtail  or  restrain  the 
liberty  of  speech  or  of  the  press. 

Sect.  7.  In  all  prosecutions  or  indictments  for  libels,  the  truth 
may  be  given  in  evidence,  and  the  jury  shall  have  the  right  to  deter- 
mine the  law  and  the  facts,  under  the  direction  of  the  court. 

Sect.  8.  The  people  shall  be  secure  in  their  persons,  houses, 
papers  and  possessions  from  unreasonable  searches  or  seizures ;  and 
no  warrant  to  search  any  place,  or  to  seize  any  person  or  things,  shall 
issue  without  describing  them  as  nearly  as  may  be,  nor  without  prob- 
able cause  supported  by  oath  or  affirmation. 

Sect.  9.  In  all  criminal  prosecutions,  the  accused  shall  have 
the  right  to  be  heard  by  himself  and  by  counsel ;  to  demand  the  nature 
and  cause  of  the  accusation ;  to  be  confronted  by  the  witnesses  against 
him;  to  have  compulsory  process  to  obtain  witnesses  in  his  favour; 
and  in  all  prosecutions  by  indictment  or  information,  a  speedy  public 
trial  by  an  impartial  jury.  He  shall  not  be  compelled  to  give  evidence 
against  himself,  nor  be  deprived  of  life,  liberty,  or  property,  but  by 
due  process  of  law.  And  no  person  shall  be  holden  to  answer  for  any 
crime,  the  punishment  of  which  may  be  death  or  imprisonment  for  life, 
unless  on  a  presentment  or  indictment  of  a  grand  jury;  except  in 
the  land  or  naval  forces,  or  in  the  militia  when  in  actual  service  in 
time  of  war,  or  public  danger. 

Sect.  10.  No  person  shall  be  arrested,  detained  or  punished, 
except  in  cases  clearly  warranted  by  law. 

Sect.  ii.  The  property  of  no  person  shall  be  taken  for  public 
use,  without  just  compensation  therefor. 

Sect.  12.  All  courts  shall  be  open,  and  every  person,  for  any 
injury  done  to  him  in  his  person,  property  or  reputation,  shall  have 
remedy  by  due  course  of  law,  and  right  and  justice  administered 
without  sale,  denial  or  delay. 

Sect.  13.  Excessive  bail  shall  not  be  required,  nor  excessive  fines 
imposed. 

Sect.  14.  All  prisoners  shall,  before  conviction,  be  bailable  by 
sufficient  sureties,  except  for  capital  offenses,  where  the  proof  is 
evident,  or  the  presumption  great;  and  the  privileges  of  the  writ  of 
habeas  corpus  shall  not  be  suspended,  unless  when  in  case  of  rebellion 
or  invasion,  the  public  safety  may  require  it;  nor  in  any  case,  but  by 
the  legislature. 

Sect.  15.  No  person  shall  be  attainted  of  treason  or  felony,  by 
the  legislature. 

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Sect.  16.  The  citizens  have  a  right,  in  a  peaceable  manner,  to 
assemble  for  their  common  good,  and  to  apply  to  those  invested  with 
the  powers  of  government,  for  redress  of  grievances,  or  other  proper 
purposes,  by  petition,  address  or  remonstrance. 

Sect.  17.  Every  citizen  has  a  right  to  bear  arms  in  defense  of 
himself  and  the  State. 

Sect.  18.  The  military  shall,  in  all  cases,  and  at  all  times,  be  in 
strict  subordination  to  the  civil  power. 

Sect.  19.  No  soldier  shall,  in  time  of  peace,  be  quartered  in 
any  house,  without  the  consent  of  the  owner;  nor  in  time  of  war,  but 
in  a  manner  to  be  prescribed  by  law. 

Sect.  20.  No  hereditary  emoluments,  privileges,  or  honors,  shall 
ever  be  granted,  or  conferred,  in  this  State. 

Sect.  21.     The  right  of  trial  by  jury  shall  remain  inviolate. 

Article   Second. 

OF  THE  DISTRIBUTION  OF  POWERS. 

The  powers  of  government  shall  be  divided  into  three  distinct 
departments,  and  each  of  them  confided  to  a  separate  magistracy,  to  wit, 
those  which  are  legislative,  to  one;  those  which  are  executive,  to 
another;  and  those  which  are  judicial,  to  another. 

Article  Third. 
OF  THE  LEGISLATIVE  DEPARTMENT. 

Sect.  i.  The  legislative  power  of  this  State  shall  be  vested  in 
two  distinct  houses  or  branches;  the  one  to  be  styled  The  Senate, 
the  other  The  House  of  Representatives,  and  both  together  THE 
GENERAL  ASSEMBLY.  The  style  of  their  laws  shall  be,  Be  it 
enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  General 
Assembly  convened. 

Sect.  2.  There  shall  be  a  stated  session  of  the  General  Assembly 
to  be  holden  at  Hartford  biennially  on  the  Wednesday  following  the 
first  Monday  of  the  January  next  succeeding  the  election  of  its  mem- 
bers as  now  provided  by  law,  and  at  such  other  times  as  the  General 
Assembly  shall  judge  necessary;  but  the  person  administering  the 
office  of  Governor,  may,  on  special  emergencies,  convene  the  General 
Assembly  at  said  place  at  any  other  time.  And  in  case  of  danger 
from  the  prevalence  of  contagious  diseases,  in  said  place,  or  other 
circumstances,  the  person  administering  the  office  of  Governor  may, 
by  proclamation,  convene  said  Assembly  at  any  other  place  in  this 
State. 

Sect.  3.  The  House  of  Representatives  shall  consist  of  electors 
residing  in  towns  from  which  they  are  elected.  Every  town  which  now 
contains,  or  hereafter  shall  contain  a  population  of  five  thousand,  shall 
be  entitled  to  send  two  representatives,  and  every  other  one  shall  be 
entitled  to  its  present  representation  in  the  General  Assembly.  The 
population  of  each  town  shall  be  determined  by  the  enumeration  made 
under  the  authority  of  the  census  of  the  United  States,  next  before  the 
election  of  representatives  is  held.     In  case  a  new  town  shall  hereafter 

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be  incorporated,  such  new  town  shall  not  be  entitled  to  a  Representative 
in  the  General  Assembly  unless  it  has  at  least  twenty-five  hundred 
inhabitants,  and  unless  the  town  from  which  the  major  portion  of  its 
territory  is  taken  has  also  at  least  twenty-five  hundred  inhabitants ;  but 
until  such  towns  shall  each  have  at  least  twenty-five  hundred  inhabit- 
ants, such  new  town  shall,  for  the  purpose  of  representation  in  the 
General  Assembly,  be  attached  to,  and  be  deemed  to  be  a  part  of,  the 
town  from  which  the  major  portion  of  its  territory  is  taken,  and  it 
shall  be  an  election  district  of  such  town  for  the  purpose  of  repre- 
sentation in  the  House  of  Representatives. 

[The  Senate  of  this  State  shall  consist  of  not  less  than  eighteen 
nor  more  than  twenty-four  members,  and  be  chosen  by  districts.  The 
General  Assembly  (of  1829)  shall  divide  the  State  into  districts  for 
the  choice  of  Senators,  and  shall  determine  what  number  shall  be 
elected  in  each,  which  districts  shall  not  be  less  than  eight,  nor  more 
than  twenty-four  in  number,  and  in  forming  them  regard  shall  be  had 
to  the  population  in  said  apportionment  in  such  manner  that  no  county 
shall  have  less  than  two  Senators.]  * 

Sect.  4.  From  and  after  the  Wednesday  after  the  first  Monday 
of  January,  1905,  the  senate  shall  be  composed  of  not  less  than  twenty- 
four  and  not  more  than  thirty-six  members,  who  shall  be  elected  at 
the  electors'  meeting  held  biennially  on  the  Tuesday  after  the  first 
Monday  in  November. 

Sect.  5.  The  general  assembly  which  shall  be  held  on  the 
Wednesday  after  the  first  Monday  of  January,  1903,  shall  divide  the 
state  into  senatorial  districts,  as  hereinafter  provided;  the  number  of 
such  districts  shall  not  be  less  than  twenty-four  nor  more  than  thirty- 
six,  and  each  district  shall  elect  only  one  senator.  The  districts  shall 
always  be  composed  of  contiguous  territory,  and  in  forming  them 
regard  shall  be  had  to  population  in  the  several  districts,  that  the 
same  may  be  as  nearly  equal  as  possible  under  the  limitations  of  this 
section.  Neither  the  whole  or  a  part  of  one  county  shall  be  joined  to 
the  whole  or  a  part  of  another  county  to  form  a  district,  and  no  town 
shall  be  divided,  unless  for  the  purpose  of  forming  more  than  one 
district  wholly  within  such  town,  and  each  county  shall  have  at  least 
one  senator.  The  districts,  when  established  as  hereinafter  provided, 
shall  continue  the  same  until  the  session  of  the  general  assembly  next 
after  the  completion  of  the  next  census  of  the  United  States,  which 
general  assembly  shall  have  power  to  alter  the  same,  if  found  necessary 
to  preserve  a  proper  equality  of  population  in  each  district,  but  only  in 
accordance  with  the  principles  above  recited ;  after  which  said  districts 

*  The  Constitutional  provision  relating  to  Senators  and  Senatorial  districts  appears  in 
the  amendment  of  1828.  The  remaining  portions  of  that  amendment  authorize  the  Legisla- 
ture to  redistrict  the  State  from  time  to  time  on  the  basis  of  population,  and  provide  the 
manner  in  which  districts  shall  be  formed.  The  Legislature  has  acted  several  times  under 
that  amendment,  the  last  time  in  1881,  Revised  Statutes  of  1888,  Section  197,  when  the 
limit  of  twenty-four  Senators  allowed  by  the  amendment  of  1828  was  reached,  and  the  next 
Senate  will  be  elected  under  that  statute.  The  amendment  adopted  in  1901,  which  becomes 
operative  in  1903,  is  largely  copied  from  the  amendment  of  1828  in  respect  to  the  time  and 
manner  in  which  the  State  may  be  redistricted  by  the  Legislature,  and  the  manner  in  which 
districts  may  be  formed.  Those  provisions  appear  in  this  compilation  of  the  Constitution 
in  the  second  succeeding  section  [Sec.  5],  but  have  not  been  inserted  here  because  they  will 
apply  to  only  one  more  election  in  the  districts  as  already  formed,  and  because  to  insert 
those  provisions  here  would  simply  be  repetition. 

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shall  not  be  altered,  nor  the  number  of  senators  altered,  except  at  a 
session  of  the  general  assembly  next  after  the  completion  of  a  census 
of  the  United  States,  and  then  only  in  accordance  with  the  principles 
hereinbefore  provided.  The  persons  voted  for  for  Senators  shall,  at 
the  time  of  such  vote,  belong  to  and  reside  in  the  respective  districts 
in  which  they  are  so  voted  for. 

Sect.  6.  The  Treasurer,  Secretary,  and  Comptroller,  for  the 
time  being,  shall  canvass  the  votes  publicly.  The  person  in  each 
district  having  the  greatest  number  of  votes  for  senator  shall  be 
declared  to  be  elected  for  such  district;  but  in  cases  where  no  choice 
is  made  by  the  electors  in  consequence  of  an  equality  of  votes,  the 
House  of  Representatives  shall  designate,  by  ballot,  which  of  the  can- 
didates having  such  equal  number  of  votes,  shall  be  declared  to  be 
elected.  The  return  of  votes,  and  the  result  of  the  canvass,  shall  be 
submitted  to  the  House  of  Representatives,  and  also  to  the  Senate, 
on  the  first  day  of  the  session  of  the  General  Assembly;  and  each 
house  shall  be  the  final  judge  of  the  election  returns  and  qualifications 
of  its  own  members. 

Sec.  7.  A  general  election  for  Governor,  Lieutenant-Governor, 
Secretary,  Treasurer,  Comptroller,  and  members  of  the  General 
Assembly  shall  be  held  on  the  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  of 
November,  biennially,  as  now  provided  by  law,  and  for  such  other 
officers  as  are  herein  and  may  be  hereafter  prescribed.  The  General 
Assembly  shall  have  power  to  enact  laws  regulating  and  prescribing 
the  order  and  manner  of  voting  for  said  officers,  and  also  providing 
for  the  election  of  representatives  at  some  time  subsequent  to  the 
Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  of  November  in  all  cases  when  it  shall 
so  happen  that  the  electors  in  any  town  shall  fail  on  that  day  to  elect 
the  representative  or  representatives  to  which  such  town  shall  be.  by 
law  entitled. 

Sec.  8.  At  the  general  election  for  State  officers  and  members 
of  the  General  Assembly  the  presiding  officers  shall  receive  the  votes 
of  the  electors,  which  shall  be  by  ballot,  either  written  or  printed,  and 
count  and  declare  them:  in  open  meeting.  The  presiding  officers  shall 
also  make  duplicate  lists  of  the  persons  voted  for,  and  of  the  number  of 
votes  for  each,  which  shall  be  certified  by  the  presiding  officers ;  one  of 
which  lists  shall  be  delivered  to  the  town  clerk,  and  the  other  within 
ten  days  after  said  meeting,  shall  be  delivered  under  seal,  either  to  the 
secretary,  or  to  the  sheriff  of  the  county  in  which  said  town  is  situated ; 
which  list  shall  be  directed  to  the  Secretary,  with  a  superscription 
expressing  the  purport  of  the  contents  thereof :  and  each  sheriff,  who 
shall  receive  such  votes,  shall,  within  fifteen  days  after  said  meeting, 
deliver,  or  cause  them  to  be  delivered  to  the  Secretary. 

Sect.  9.  The  members  of  the  General  Assembly  shall  hold  their 
offices  for  two  years  from  the  Wednesday  following  the  first  Monday 
of  the  January  next  succeeding  their  election,  and  until  their  successors 
are  duly  qualified. 

Sect.  10.  The  House  of  Representatives,  when  assembled,  shall 
choose  a  speaker,  clerk,  and  other  officers.  The  Senate  shall  choose 
its  clerk,  and  other  officers,  except  the  President.     A  majority  of  each 

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house  shall  constitute  a  quorum  to  do  business ;  but  a  smaller  number 
may  adjourn  from  day  to  day,  and  compel  the  attendance  of  absent 
members  in  such  manner,  and  under  such  penalties,  as  each  house  may 
prescribe. 

Sect.  ii.  Each  house  shall  determine  the  rules  of  its  own  pro- 
ceedings, punish  members  for  disorderly  conduct,  and,  with  the  consent 
of  two  thirds,  expel  a  member,  but  not  a  second  time  for  the  same 
cause;  and  shall  have  all  other  powers  necessary  for  a  branch  of  the 
legislature  of  a  free  and  independent  State. 

Sect.  12.  Each  house  shall  keep  a  journal  of  its  proceedings, 
and  publish  the  same,  when  required  by  one-fifth  of  its  members,  except 
such  parts  as,  in  the  judgment  of  a  majority  require  secrecy.  The  yeas 
and  nays  of  the  members  of  either  house  shall,  at  the  desire  of  one- 
fifth  of  those  present,  be  entered  on  the  journals. 

Sect.  13.  The  senators  and  representatives  shall,  in  all  cases  of 
civil  process,  be  privileged  from  arrest,  during  the  session  of  the 
general  assembly,  and  for  four  days  before  the  commencement,  and 
after  the  termination  of  any  session  thereof.  And  for  any  speech  or 
debate  in  either  house,  they  shall  not  be  questioned  in  any  other  place. 

Sect.  14.  The  debates  of  each  house  shall  be  public,  except  on 
such  occasions  as,  in  the  opinion  of  the  house,  may  require  secrecy. 

Sect.  15.  The  compensation  of  members  of  the  General 
Assembly  shall  not  exceed  three  hundred  dollars  for  the  term  for 
which  they  are  elected,  and  one  mileage  each  way  for  the  regular 
session  at  the  rate  of  twenty-five  cents  per  mile ;  they  shall  also  receive 
one  mileage  at  the  same  rate  for  attending  any  extra  session  called 
by  the  Governor. 

Sect.  16.  Neither  the  General  Assembly,  nor  any  County,  City, 
Borough,  Town,  or  School  District,  shall  have  power  to  pay  or  grant 
any  extra  compensation  to  any  public  officer,  employe,  agent,  or 
servant,  or  increase  the  compensation  of  any  public  officer  or  employe, 
to  take  effect  during  the  continuance  in  office  of  any  person  whose 
salary  might  be  increased  thereby,  or  increase  the  pay  or  compensation 
of  any  public  contractor  above  the  amount  specified  in  the  contract. 

Article  Fourth. 
OF  THE  EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENT. 

Sect.  i.  The  Governor,  Lieutenant-Governor,  Secretary,  Treas- 
urer, and  Comptroller  shall  hold  their  respective  offices  for  two  years 
from  the  Wednesday  following  the  first  Monday  of  the  January  next 
succeeding  their  election,  and  until  their  successors  are  duly  qualified. 

Sect.  2.  At  the  meetings  of  the  electors  in  the  respective  towns 
held  biennially  as  herein  provided  for  the  election  of  State  officers, 
members  of  the  General  Assembly,  and  for  such  other  officers  as  are 
and  may  be  hereafter  prescribed,  the  presiding  officers  shall  receive 
the  ballots  and  shall  count  and  declare  the  same  in  the  presence  of 
the  electors.  When  such  ballots  shall  have  been  so  received  and 
counted,  duplicate  lists  of  the  persons  voted  for,  and  of  the  number 
of  votes  given  for  each,  shall  be  made  and  certified  by  the  presiding 

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officer,  one  of  which  lists  shall  be  deposited  in  the  office  of  the  town 
clerk  within  three  days,  and  the  other,  within  ten  days  after  said 
election,  shall  be  transmitted  to  the  Secretary,  or  to  the  sheriff  of  the 
county,  in  which  such  election  shall  have  been  held.  The  sheriff 
receiving  said  votes  shall  deliver,  or  cause  them  to  be  delivered  to  the 
Secretary,  within  fifteen  days  next  after  said  election.  The  votes  so 
returned  shall  be  counted,  canvassed  and  declared  by  the  Treasurer, 
Secretary,  and  Comptroller,  within  the  month  of  November.  The  vote 
for  Treasurer  shall  be  counted,  canvassed  and  declared  by  the  Secre- 
tary and  Comptroller  only ;  the  vote  for  Secretary  shall  be  counted 
canvassed  and  declared  by  the  Treasurer  and  Comptroller  only;  and 
the  vote  for  Comptroller  shall  be  counted,  canvassed  and  declared  by 
the  Treasurer  and  Secretary  only.  A  fair  list  of  the  persons  and 
number  of  votes  given  for  each,  together  with  the  returns  of  the  pre- 
siding officers,  shall  be,  by  the  Treasurer,  Secretary,  and  Comptroller, 
made  and  laid  before  the  General  Assembly,  then  next  to  be  holden, 
on  the  first  day  of  the  session  thereof.  In  the  election  for  governor, 
lieutenant-governor,  secretary,  treasurer,  comptroller,  and  attorney- 
general,  the  person  found  by  the  general  assembly,  in  the  manner 
herein  provided,  to  have  received  the  greatest  number  of  votes  for 
each  of  said  offices  respectively,  shall  be  declared  by  said  assembly  to 
be  elected.  But  if  two  or  more  persons  shall  be  found  to  have  an 
equal  and  the  greatest  number  of  votes  for  any  of  said  offices,  then 
the  general  assembly,  on  the  second  day  of  its  session,  by  joint  ballot 
of  both  houses,  shall  proceed  without  debate  to  choose  said  officer 
from  a  list  of  the  names  of  the  persons  found  to  have  an  equal  and 
greatest  number  of  votes  for  said  office.  The  General  Assembly  shall 
by  law  prescribe  the  manner  in  which  all  questions  concerning  the 
election  of  the  above  named  officers  shall  be  determined. 

Sect.  3.  The  supreme  executive  power  of  the  State  shall  be 
vested  in  the  Governor.  No  person,  who  is  not  an  elector  of  this 
State,  and  who  has  not  arrived  at  the  age  of  thirty  years,  shall  be 
eligible. 

Sect.  4.  The  Lieutenant  Governor  shall  possess  the  same  quali- 
fications as  are  herein  prescribed  for  the  Governor. 

Sect.  5.  The  Compensations  of  the  Governor  and  Lieutenant 
Governor  shall  be  established  by  law,  and  shall  not  be  varied  so  as 
to  take  effect  until  after  an  election,  which  shall  next  succeed  the 
passage  of  the  law  establishing  said  compensations. 

Sect.  6.  The  Governor  shall  be  Captain  General  of  the  militia 
of  the  State,  except  when  called  into  the  service  of  the  United  States. 

Sect.  7.  He  may  require  information  in  writing  from  the  officers 
in  the  executive  department,  on  any  subject  relating  to  the  duties  of 
their  respective  offices. 

Sect.  8.  The  Governor,  in  case  of  a  disagreement  between  the 
two  houses  of  the  General  Assembly,  respecting  the  time  of  adjourn- 
ment, may  adjourn  them  to  such  time  as  he  shall  think  proper,  not 
beyond  the  day  of  the  next  stated  session. 

Sect.  9.  He  shall,  from  time  to  time,  give  to  the  General 
Assembly,  information  of  the  state  of  the  government,  and  recommend 

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to  their  consideration  such  measures  as  he  shall  deem  expedient. 

Sect.   io.     He  shall  take  care  that  the  laws  be  faithfully  executed. 

Sect.  ii.  The  Governor  shall  have  power  to  grant  reprieves 
after  conviction,  in  all  cases  except  those  of  impeachment,  until  the 
end  of  the  next  session  of  the  General  Assembly,  and  no  longer. 

Sect.  12.  All  commissions  shall  be  in  the  name  and  by  authority 
of  the  State  of  Connecticut ;  shall  be  sealed  with  the  State  seal,  signed 
by  the  Governor,  and  attested  by  the  Secretary. 

Sect.  13.  Every  bill  which  shall  have  passed  both  houses  of 
the  General  Assembly,  shall  be  presented  to  the  Governor.  If  he 
approves,  he  shall  sign  and  transmit  it  to  the  Secretary,  but  if  not,  he 
shall  return  it  to  the  house  in  which  it  originated,  with  his  objections, 
which  shall  be  entered  on  the  journals  of  the  house;  who  shall  proceed 
to  reconsider  the  bill.  If  after  such  reconsideration,  that  house  shall 
again  pass  it,  it  shall  be  sent,  with  the  objections,  to  the  other  house, 
which  shall  also  reconsider  it.  If  approved,  it  shall  become  a  law. 
But  in  such  cases  the  votes  of  both  houses  shall  be  determined  by 
yeas  and  nays;  and  the  names  of  the  members  voting  for  and  against 
the  bill,  shall  be  entered  on  the  journals  of  each  house  respectively. 
If  the  bill  shall  not  be  returned  by  the  Governor  within  three  days, 
Sundays  excepted,  after  it  shall  have  been  presented  to  him,  the  same 
shall  be  a  law,  in  like  manner  as  if  he  had  signed  it ;  unless  the  General 
Assembly,  by  their  adjournment,  prevents  its  return,  in  which  case  it 
shall  not  be  a  law. 

Sect.  14.  The  Lieutenant  Governor  shall,  by  virtue  of  his  office, 
be  President  of  the  Senate,  and  have,  when  in  committee  of  the  whole, 
a  right  to  debate,  and  when  the  Senate  is  equally  divided,  to  give  the 
casting  vote. 

Sect.  15.  In  case  of  the  death,  resignation,  refusal  to  serve,  or 
removal  from  office  of  the  Governor,  or  of  his  impeachment,  or  absence 
from  the  State,  the  Lieutenant  Governor  shall  exercise  the  powers 
and  authority  appertaining  to  the  office  of  Governor,  until  another  be 
chosen  at  the  next  periodical  election  for  Governor,  and  be  duly 
qualified ;  or  until  the  Governor  impeached  or  absent,  shall  be  acquitted 
or  return. 

Sect.  16.  When  the  government  shall  be  administered  by  the 
Lieutenant  Governor,  or  he  shall  be  unable  to  attend  as  President  of 
the  Senate,  the  Senate  shall  elect  one  of  their  members  as  President 
pro  tempore.  And  if  during  the  vacancy  of  the  office  of  Governor, 
the  Lieutenant  Governor  shall  die,  resign,  refuse  to  serve,  or  be 
removed  from  office,  or  if  he  shall  be  impeached,  or  absent  from  the 
State,  the  President  of  the  Senate  pro  tempore,  shall,  in  like  manner, 
administer  the  government,  until  he  be  superseded  by  a  Governor  or 
Lieutenant  Governor. 

Sect.  17.  If  the  Lieutenant  Governor  shall  be  required  to 
administer  the  government,  and  shall,  while  in  such  administration, 
die  or  resign  during  the  recess  of  the  General  Assembly,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  Secretary,  for  the  time  being,  to  convene  the  Senate 
for  the  purpose  of  choosing  a  President  pro  tempore. 

Sect.  18.     The  Treasurer  shall  receive  all  monies  belonging  to 

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the  State,  and  disburse  the  same  only  as  he  may  be  directed  by  law. 
He  shall  pay  no  warrant  or  order  for  the  disbursement  of  public 
money,  until  the  same  has  been  registered  in  the  office  of  the 
Comptroller. 

Sect.  19.  The  Secretary  shall  have  the  safe  keeping  and  custody 
of  the  public  records  and  documents,  and  particularly  of  the  Acts, 
Resolutions  and  Orders  of  the  General  Assembly,  and  record  the 
same;  and  perform  all  such  duties  as  shall  be  prescribed  by  law.  He 
shall  be  the  keeper  of  the  seal  of  the  State,  which  shall  not  be  altered. 

Sect.  20.  The  Comptroller  shall  adjust  and  settle  all  public 
accounts  and  demands,  except  grants  and  orders  of  the  General 
Assembly.  He  shall  prescribe  the  mode  of  keeping  and  rendering  all 
public  accounts.  He  shall  ex  officio  be  one  of  the  auditors  of  the 
accounts  of  the  Treasurer.  The  General  Assembly  may  assign  to  him 
other  duties  in  relation  to  his  office,  and  to  that  of  the  Treasurer,  and 
shall  prescribe  the  manner  in  which  his  duties  shall  be  performed. 

Sect.  21.  Sheriffs  shall  be  elected  in  the  several  counties 
quadrennially  on  the  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  of  November, 
as  now  provided  by  law,  and  shall  hold  office  for  the  term  of  four 
years  from  the  first  day  of  June  following  their  election.  They  shall 
become  bound,  with  sufficient  sureties  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  State 
for  the  faithful  discharge  of  the  duties  of  their  office,  in  such  manner 
as  shall  be  prescribed  by  law.  They  shall  be  removable  by  the  General 
Assembly.  In  case  the  sheriff  of  any  county  shall  die,  resign,  or  shall 
be  removed  from  office  by  the  General  Assembly,  the  Governor  may 
fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  thereby,  until  the  same  shall  be  filled  by 
the  next  quadrennial  election. 

Sect.  22.  A  statement  of  all  receipts,  payments,  funds,  and  debts 
of  the  State,  shall  be  published  from  time  to  time  in  such  manner  and 
at  such  periods  as  shall  be  prescribed  by  law. 

Article  Fifth. 
OF  THE  JUDICIAL  DEPARTMENT. 

Sect.  i.  The  judicial  power  of  the  State  shall  be  vested  in  a 
Supreme  Court  of  Errors,  a  Superior  Court,  and  such  inferior  courts 
as  the  General  Assembly  shall,  from  time  to  time,  ordain  and  establish : 
the  powers  and  jurisdiction  of  which  courts  shall  be  defined  by  law. 

Sect.  2.  The  justices  of  the  peace  for  the  several  towns  in  this 
State  shall  be  appointed  by  the  electors  in  such  towns;  and  the  time 
and  manner  of  their  election,  the  number  for  each  town,  and  the  period 
for  which  they  shall  hold  their  offices,  shall  be  prescribed  by  law. 
They  shall  have  such  jurisdiction  in  civil  and  criminal  cases  as  the 
General  Assembly  may  prescribe. 

Sect.  3.  The  judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Errors  and  of 
the  Superior  Court  shall,  upon  nomination  of  the  Governor,  be 
appointed  by  the  General  Assembly  in  such  manner  as  shall  by  law  be 
prescribed.  They  shall  hold  their  offices  for  the  term  of  eight  years, 
but  may  be  removed  by  impeachment ;  and  the  Governor  shall  also 
remove  them  on  the  address  of  two-thirds  of  each  house  of  the  General 

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Assembly.  No  judge  or  justice  of  the  peace  shall  be  capable  of  holding 
office  after  he  shall  arrive  at  the  age  of  seventy  years. 

Sect.  4.  Judges  of  the  Courts  of  Common  Pleas,  and  of  the 
District  Courts,  shall  be  appointed  for  terms  of  four  years.  Judges  of 
the  City  Courts  and  Police  Courts  shall  be  appointed  for  terms  of 
two  years. 

Sect.  5.  Judges  of  Probate  shall  be  elected  by  the  electors 
residing  in  their  respective  districts  at  the  general  election  biennially. 
They  shall  hold  their  offices  for  two  years  from  the  Wednesday  after 
the  first  Monday  of  the  January  next  succeeding  their  election. 

Article  Sixth. 
OF  THE  QUALIFICATIONS  OF  ELECTORS. 

Sect.  I.  All  persons  who  have  been,  or  shall  hereafter,  previous 
to  the  ratification  of  this  Constitution,  be  admitted  freemen,  according 
to  the  existing  laws  of  this  State,  shall  be  electors. 

Sect.  2.  Every  male  citizen  of  the  United  States  who  shall  have 
attained  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  who  shall  have  resided  in  this 
State  for  a  term  of  one  year  next  preceding,  and  in  the  town  in  which 
he  may  offer  himself  to  be  admitted  to  the  privileges  of  an  elector,  at 
least  six  months  next  preceding  the  time  he  may  so  offer  himself,  and 
shall  be  able  to  read  in  the  English  language  any  article  of  the  Consti- 
tution of  any  section  of  the  Statutes  of  this  State,  and  shall  sustain 
a  good  moral  character,  shall,  on  his  taking  such  oath  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  law,  be  an  elector. 

Sect,  3.  The  privileges  of  an  elector  shall  be  forfeited  by  a 
conviction  of  bribery,  forgery,  perjury,  duelling,  fraudulent  bank- 
ruptcy, theft,  or  other  offense  for  which  an  infamous  punishment  is 
inflicted.  But  the  General  Assembly  shall  have  power,  by  vote  of 
two-thirds  of  the  members  of  both  branches,  to  restore  the  privileges 
of  an  elector  to  those  who  may  have  forfeited  the  same  by  a  conviction 
of  crime. 

Sect.  4.  Every  elector  shall  be  eligible  to  any  office  in  this 
State,  except  in  cases  provided  for  in  this  Constitution. 

Sect.  5.  The  selectmen  and  town  clerk  of  the  several  towns 
shall  decide  on  the  qualifications  of  electors,  at  such  times  and  in  such 
manner  as  may  be  prescribed  by  law. 

Sect.  6.  Laws  shall  be  made  to  support  the  privilege  of  free 
suffrage,  prescribing  the  manner  of  regulating  and  conducting  meet- 
ings of  the  electors,  and  prohibiting,  under  adequate  penalties,  all 
undue  influence  therein,  from  power,  bribery,  tumult  and  other 
improper  conduct. 

Sect.  7.  In  all  elections  of  officers  of  the  State,  or  members  of 
the  General  Assembly,  the  votes  of  the  electors  shall  be  by  ballot. 

Sect.  8.  At  all  elections  of  officers  of  the  State,  or  members  of 
the  General  Assembly,  the  electors  shall  be  privileged  from  arrest, 
during  their  attendance  upon,  and  going  to  and  returning  from  the 
same,  on  any  civil  process. 

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Article  Seventh. 
OF  RELIGION. 

Sect.  i.  It  being  the  duty  of  all  men  to  worship  the  Supreme 
Being,  the  Great  Creator  and  Preserver  of  the  Universe,  and  their 
right  to  render  that  worship,  in  the  mode  most  consistent  with  the 
dictates  of  their  consciences;  no  person  shall  by  law  be  compelled  to 
join  or  support,  nor  be  classed  with,  or  associated  to,  any  congregation, 
church  or  religious  association.  But  every  person  now  belonging 
to  such  congregation,  church,  or  religious  association  shall  remain  a 
member  thereof  until  he  shall  have  separated  himself  therefrom,  in  the 
manner  hereinafter  provided.  And  each  and  every  society  or  denom- 
ination of  Christians  in  this  State,  shall  have  and  enjoy  the  same  and 
equal  powers,  rights  and  privileges ;  and  shall  have  power  and  authority 
to  support  and  maintain  the  ministers  or  teachers  of  their  respective 
denominations,  and  to  build  and  repair  houses  for  public  worship,  by 
a  tax  on  the  members  of  any  such  society  only,  to  be  laid  by  a  major 
vote  of  the  legal  voters  assembled  at  any  society  meeting,  warned  and 
held  according  to  law,  or  in  any  other  manner. 

Sect.  2.  If  any  person  shall  choose  to  separate  himself  from  the 
society  or  denomination  of  Christians  to  which  he  may  belong,  and 
shall  leave  a  written  notice  thereof  with  the  clerk  of  such  society,  he 
shall  thereupon  be  no  longer  liable  for  any  future  expenses  which  may 
be  incurred  by  said  society. 

Article  Eighth. 
OF  EDUCATION. 

Sect.  i.  The  charter  of  Yale  College,  as  modified  by  agreement 
with  the  corporation  thereof,  in  pursuance  of  an  Act  of  the  General 
Assembly,  passed  in  May,  1792,  is  hereby  confirmed. 

Sect.  2.  The  fund,  called  the  School  Fund,  shall  remain  a 
perpetual  fund,  the  interest  of  which  shall  be  inviolably  appropriated 
to  the  support  and  encouragement  of  the  public,  or  common  schools 
throughout  the  state,  and  for  the  equal  benefit  of  all  the  people  thereof. 
The  value  and  amount  of  said  fund  shall,  as  soon  as  practicable,  be 
ascertained  in  such  manner  as  the  General  Assembly  may  prescribe, 
published,  and  recorded  in  the  Comptroller's  office;  and  no  law  shall 
ever  be  made,  authorizing  said  fund  to  be  diverted  to  any  other  use 
than  the  encouragement  and  support  of  public,  or  common  schools, 
among  the  several  school  societies,  as  justice  and  equity  shall  require. 

Article  Ninth. 
OF  IMPEACHMENTS. 

Sect.  i.  The  House  of  Representatives  shall  have  the  sole  power 
of  impeaching. 

Sect.  2.  All  impeachments  shall  be  tried  by  the  Senate.  When 
sitting  for  that  purpose,  they  shall  be  on  oath  or  affirmation.  No 
person  shall  be  convicted  without  the  concurrence  of  two-thirds  of 
the  members  present.  When  the  Governor  is  impeached,  the  Chief 
Justice  shall  preside. 

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Sect.  3.  The  Governor,  and  all  other  executive  and  judicial 
officers,  shall  be  liable  to  impeachment;  but  judgments  in  such  cases 
shall  not  extend  further  than  to  removal  from  office  and  disqualification 
to  hold  any  office  of  honor,  trust  or  profit  under  this  State.  The  party- 
convicted,  shall,  nevertheless,  be  liable  and  subject  to  indictment,  trial 
and  punishment  according  to  law. 

Sect.  4.  Treason  against  the  State  shall  consist  only  in  levying 
war  against  it,  or  adhering  to  its  enemies,  giving  them  aid  and  comfort. 
No  person  shall  be  convicted  of  treason,  unless  on  the  testimony  of 
two  witnesses  to  the  same  overt  act,  or  on  confession  in  open  court. 
No  conviction  of  treason,  or  attainder,  shall  work  corruption  of  blood 
•or  forfeiture. 

Article  Tenth. 

GENERAL  PROVISIONS. 

Sect.  i.  Members  of  the  General  Assembly,  and  all  officers, 
executive  and  judicial,  shall,  before  they  enter  on  the  duties  of  their 
respective  offices,  take  the  following  oath  or  affirmation,  to  wit: 

You  do  solemnly  swear,  or  affirm,  (as  the  case  may  be,)  that 
you  will  support  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  and  the  Con- 
stitution of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  so  long  as  you  continue  a  citizen 
thereof;  and  that  you  will  faithfully  discharge,  according  to  law,  the 

duties  of  the  office  of to  the  best  of  your  abilities.     So 

help  you  God. 

Sect.  2.  Each  town  shall  annually  elect  selectmen,  and  such 
officers  of  local  police,  as  the  laws  may  prescribe. 

Sect.  3.  No  County,  City,  Town,  Borough,  or  other  municipality, 
shall  ever  subscribe  to  the  capital  stock  of  any  railroad  corporation  or 
become  a  purchaser  of  the  bonds,  or  make  donation  to,  or  loan  its 
credit,  directly  or  indirectly,  in  aid  of  any  such  corporation;  but 
-nothing  herein  contained  shall  affect  the  validity  of  any  bonds  or  debts 
incurred  under  existing  laws,  nor  be  construed  to  prohibit  the  General 
Assembly  from  authorizing  any  Town  or  City  to  protect  by  additional 
appropriations  of  money  or  credit  any  railroad  debt  contracted  prior  to 
the  amendment  to  the  Constitution,  adopted  October,  1877. 

Sect.  4.  *The  rights  and  duties  of  all  corporations  shall  remain 
as  if  this  Constitution  had  not  been  adopted;  with  the  exception  of 
such  regulations  and  restrictions  as  are  contained  in  this  Constitution. 
All  judicial  and  civil  officers  now  in  office,  shall  continue  to  hold  their 
offices  until  their  terms  of  office  shall  expire,  or  until  they  shall  resign, 
or  be  removed  from  office  according  to  law.  All  military  officers  shall 
continue  to  hold  and  exercise  their  respective  offices,  until  their  terms 
of  office  shall  expire  or  until  they  shall  resign,  or  be  removed  according 
to  law.  All  laws  not  contrary  to,  or  inconsistent  with,  the  provisions 
of  this  Constitution,  shall  remain  in  force,  until  they  shall  expire  by 
their  own  limitation,  or  shall  be  altered  or  repealed  by  the  General 
Assembly,  in  pursuance  of  this  Constitution.  The  validity  of  all 
"bonds,  debts,  contracts,  as  well  of  individuals  as  of  bodies  corporate, 
or  the  State,  or  all  suits,  actions,  or  rights  of  action,  both  in  law  and 
♦equity,  shall  continue  as  if  no  change  had  taken  place. 

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Sect.  5.  No  judge  of  the  Superior  Court,  or  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Errors;  no  member  of  Congress;  no  person  holding  any 
office  under  the  authority  of  the  United  States ;  no  person  holding  the 
office  of  Treasurer,  Secretary,  or  Comptroller;  no  sheriff  or  sheriff's 
deputy,  shall  be  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly. 

Article  Eleventh. 

OF  AMENDMENTS  TO  THE  CONSTITUTION. 

Whenever  a  majority  of  the  House  of  Representatives  shall  deem 
it  necessary  to  alter,  or  amend  this  Constitution,  they  may  propose 
such  alteration  and  amendments;  which  proposed  amendments  shall 
be  continued  to  the  next  General  Assembly,  and  be  published  with 
the  laws  which  may  have  been  passed  at  the  same  session;  and  if  two- 
thirds  of  each  house,  at  the  next  session  of  said  Assembly,  shall 
approve  the  amendments  proposed,  by  yeas  and  nays,  said  amendments 
shall,  by  the  Secretary,  be  transmitted  to  the  town  clerk  in  each  town 
in  the  State;  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  present  the  same  to  the 
inhabitants  thereof,  for  their  consideration,  at  a  town  meeting,  legally 
warned  and  held  for  that  purpose;  and  if  it  shall  appear  in  a  manner 
to  be  provided  by  law,  that  a  majority  of  the  electors  present  at  such 
meetings,  shall  have  approved  such  amendments,  the  same  shall  be 
valid,  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  as  a  part  of  this  Constitution. 


AMENDMENTS  ADOPTED  SINCE  1  902. 

The  amendments  to  the  Constitution  since  the  above  was  compiled 
are  as  follows: 

ARTICLE  XXXII. 

Each  town  shall,  annually,  or  biennially,  as  the  electors  of  the 
town  may  determine,  elect  selectmen  and  such  officers  of  local  police 
as  the  laws  may  prescribe. 

ARTICLE  XXXIII. 

Voting  machines  or  other  mechanical  devices  for  voting  may  be 
used  in  all  elections  in  this  state,  under  such  regulations  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  law;  provided,  however,  that  the  right  of  secret  voting 
shall  be  preserved. 

ARTICLE  XXXIV. 

In  case  of  the  death,  resignation,  refusal  to  serve,  inability  to 
perform  the  powers  and  duties  of  his  office,  or  removal  from  office 
of  the  Governor,  or  of  his  impeachment  or  absence  from:  the  state, 
the  Lieutenant-Governor  shall  exercise  the  powers  and  authority 
appertaining  to  the  office  of  Governor,  until  another  be  chosen  at  the 
next  periodical  election  for  Governor,  and  be  duly  qualified;  or  until 
the  disability  be  removed,  or  until  the  Governor,  impeached  or  absent, 
shall  be  acquitted  or  return. 

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ARTICLE  XXXV. 

The  General  Assembly  shall  adjourn  sine  die  not  later  than  the 
iirst  Wednesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  June  following  its 
organization. 

ARTICLE  XXXVI. 

That  portion  of  section  three  of  article  twenty-seven  of  the  amend- 
ments to  the  constitution  which  relates  to  mileage  of  members  of  the 
general  assembly  is  hereby  amended  to  read  as  follows :  and  in  addition 
to  such  compensation,  the  general  assembly  may  provide  by  law  for 
the  transportation  of  each  member  by  public  conveyance  by  the  most 
convenient  route  between  his  home  station  and  the  place  of  meeting 
during  the  session  or  sessions  of  the  general  assembly  to  which  he 
was  elected. 


Art. 

32. 

Adopted  October,  1905. 

Art. 

33. 

Adopted  October,  1905, 

Art. 

34. 

Adopted  1911-1912. 

Art. 

35. 

Adopted  1911-1912. 

Art. 

36. 

Adopted  1915-1916. 

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FIRST  GOVERNOR  OF  CONNECTICUT  UNDER 
THE  PRESENT  CONSTITUTION. 


OLIVER  WOLCOTT. 
Governor,    181 7-1827. 

Hon.  Oliver  Wolcott  was  the  first  governor  of  Connecticut  under 
the  present  Constitution,  and  the  third  member  of  that  famous  family 
to  occupy  the  office.  He  was  born  in  Litchfield  on  January  it,  1760,. 
and  was  a  son  of  Governor  Oliver  and  Loraine  (Collins)  Wolcott. 
He  entered  Yale  College  in  1774,  but  two  years  later  he  volunteered 
in  the  militia  and  left  his  studies,  but  later  returned  to  college  and 
graduated.  During  the  summer  he  was  with  his  father,  as  aide-de- 
camp, who  was  then  commanding  on  the  western  borders  of  the  town. 
After  accompanying  his  father  to  the  coast  he  accepted  a  quarter- 
master's position.  This  was  a  period  of  great  privation  for  his  family 
at  Litchfield.  The  elder  Wolcott  was  absent  in  Congress,  and  on  his 
son's  shoulders  fell  the  responsibility  of  obtaining  fuel  and  provisions 
for  the  family.  He  was  also  obliged  to  keep  open  the  roads  for  the 
necessary  transportation  of  army  stores  under  his  charge.  In  1781 
Wolcott  left  his  home  in  Litchfield  with  three  dollars  in  his  pocket, 
and  went  to  Hartford,  where  he  soon  afterward  accepted  a  clerkship 
in  the  office  of  the  commissioner  of  the  pay  table,  at  a  salary  of  fifty 
cents  per  day  specie  value.  Owing  to  his  great  diligence  in  discharging 
the  duties  of  the  office,  the  General  Assembly  in  1782,  appointed  him 
one  of  the  commissioners  of  the  pay  table.  Although  he  was  the  junior 
member  of  the  commission,  he  was  in  May,  1784,  appointed  commis- 
sioner to  adjust  claims  for  Connecticut  against  the  United  States. 
During  the  early  part  of  1788  the  Board  of  Pay  Table  was  abolished, 
and  in  its  place .  was  created  the  office  of  Comptroller  of  Public 
Accounts,  a  position  he  held  until  September,  1789.  In  1789,  he  was 
appointed  auditor  of  the  United  States  Treasury  Department,  and 
comptroller  of  the  treasury  in  the  spring  of  1791.  Alexander  Hamilton 
resigned  as  secretary  of  the  treasury  in  1795  and  in  February,  Wolcott 
succeeded  him.  He  held  the  office  through  the  remainder  of  Wash- 
ington's   administration    and    was    continued    in    ofiice    by    President 

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Litchfield 

First  Governor  of  Connecticut  under  the  Present  Constitution 

Portrait  Reproduced  from  the  Official   Oil   Painting  by   Ralph   Earle  in 

Memorial    Hall,   State    Library,    Hartford 


Adams;  resigning  November  8,  1800.  He  was  then  appointed,  by 
President  Adams,  Judge  of  the  Second  Circuit  of  the  United  States 
and  served  until  the  judiciary  act  was  repealed  in  1802.  He  then 
removed  to  New  York  City,  where  he  became  a  merchant.  He  was 
very  successful,  gathered  a  fortune  in  a  short  time,  and  was  first  presi- 
dent of  the  bank  of  North  America.  Soon  after  the  close  of  the  second 
war  with  Great  Britain,  he  returned  to  his  former  home  in  Litchfield, 
where  he,  in  company  with  a  brother,  founded  large  woolen  factories 
in  Wolcottville  in  the  town  of  Torrington.  In  181 7,  he  took  his  seat  as 
governor  of  Connecticut,  and  his  administration  was  destined  to  be  one 
of  great  reform.  The  most  important  question  to  demand  the  attention 
of  the  General  Assembly  was  that  of  calling  a  state  convention  to  frame 
a  new  constitution.  This  had  been  the  bone  of  contention  between 
the  two  political  parties  for  the  last  twenty  years.  The  convention 
was  called  and  Governor  Wolcott  was  chosen  president.  He  presided 
over  the  sessions  of  the  convention  with  dignity  and  ability,  and  the 
original  draft  of  the  constitution  is  said  to  have  been  his  work.  The 
new  constitution  was  framed  and  adopted.  For  ten  years  Governor 
Wolcott  was  continued  in  office  with  no  decided  opposition.  His 
career  as  governor  sustained  his  great  reputation  for  executive  ability 
which  he  had  gained  as  a  member  of  Washington's  Cabinet.  After 
retiring  from  the  office  of  governor,  he  returned  to  New  York  City, 
where  he  lived  with  his  children  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  Gover- 
nor Wolcott  devoted  his  fortune  to  fostering  agricultural  pursuits,  and 
developing  the  great  factories  he  had  founded.  He  also  paid  consider- 
able attention  to  letters,  and  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws 
from  the  corporations  of  Brown  University,  the  College  of  New  Jersey, 
and  Yale  College.  He  died  at  his  home  in  New  York,  June  I,  1833, 
and  the  death  of  no  public  man  of  the  period  was  mourned  more  than 
Governor  Wolcott.  Being  the  last  survivor  of  Washington's  Cabinet 
and  a  conspicuous  figure  that  represented  the  principles  of  the 
founders  of  the  republic,  Wolcott's  death  was  looked  upon  as  a  national 
loss. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES 

of  the 

STATE  OFFICERS  OF  CONNECTICUT 

Living,  1919 


GOVERNORS 

THOMAS  M.  WALLER 
Governor    1883- 1885 

Hon.  Thomas  M.  Waller,  of  New  London,  Secretary  of  State  in 
1870-71  and  Governor  from  1883  to  1885,  was  born  in  New  York 
City  in  1839.  He  is  the  son  of  Thomas  C.  and  Mary  Armstrong. 
His  parents  died  when  he  was  nine  years  old  and  soon  afterwards 
was  adopted  by  the  late  Robert  K.  Waller  of  New  London,  whose 
name  he  assumed.  His  early  education  was  received  in  the  public 
schools  of  New  London,  graduating  from  the  Bartlett  High  School 
with  honors.  He  then  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  New 
London  County  bar  in  1861.  Soon  after,  however,  he  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  the  Second  Regiment,  Connecticut  Volunteers,  and  was 
appointed  fourth  sergeant  in  Company  E.  After  going  to  the  front 
with  his  regiment,  he  was  compelled  to  resign  because  of  an  eye 
difficulty.  Returned  to  New  London,  he  entered  the  practice  of  his 
profession  and  has  since  met  with  flattering  success.  He  is  a  Demo- 
crat and  was  elected  a  representative  from  New  London  to  the 
General  Assembly  in  1867,  1868,  1872  and  1876,  the  latter  session 
being  Speaker  of  the  House.  He  has  been  Mayor  of  New  London 
and  was  State's  Attorney  for  New  London  County  from  1875  to 
1883.  Soon  after  retiring  from  the  Governor's  chair  in  1885, 
President  Cleveland  appointed  him  as  United  States  Consul-General 
at  London,  England.  He  held  this  position  until  1889,  when  he  re- 
turned to  New  London  and  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession. 
He  was  one  of  the  two  vice-presidents  of  the  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion of  1902.  Governor  Waller  has  taken  a  prominent  part  in 
many  conventions  and  public  meetings. 

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PHINEAS  C.  LOUNSBURY 

Governor,    1887- 1889 

Hon.  Phineas  C.  Lounsbury,  of  Ridgefield,  Governor  from  1887 
to  1889,  was  born  in  Ridgefield,  January  10,  1841.  He  is  the  son  of 
Nathan  and  Delia  Scofield  Lounsbury,  and  brother  of  ex-Governor 
George  E.  Lounsbury.  As  a  boy  he  helped  his  father  on  the  farm 
and  obtained  a  good  education.  Leaving  home  he  went  to  New 
York  City  and  secured  employment  as  a  clerk  in  a  shoe  store.  He 
soon  was  promoted  to  confidential  clerk  to  the  proprietor  of  the  store 
and  afterwards  became  a  traveling  salesman  for  the  concern  and 
intimately  acquainted  with  every  department  of  the  business.  At  the 
early  age  of  twenty-one  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother, 
under  firm  name  of  Lounsbury  Brothers,  and  began  the  manufac- 
ture of  boots  and  shoes  in  New  Haven.  Later  the  concern  removed 
to  South  Norwalk,  where  the  business  has  been  successfully  carried 
on  for  several  years,  under  the  firm  name  of  Lounsbury,  Mathewson 
&  Company.  When  the  Civil  War  commenced,  Governor  Lounsbury 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Seventeenth  Connecticut  Volunteers,  and 
soon  after  reaching  the  front  was  taken  sick  with  typhoid  fever;  and 
after  being  in  service  four  months,  he  was  honorably  discharged. 
In  1874  he  was  a  Republican  member  of  the  General  Assembly  and  in 
1880  he  was  a  presidential  elector.  He  has  held  no  political  office 
since  the  expiration  of  his  term  as  Governor  (1889)  but  has  devoted 
his  time  to  his  many  business  enterprises.  He  has  been  president 
of  the  Merchants  Exchange  National  Bank  of  New  York  since 
1885  and  is  vice-president  of  the  Preferred  Accident  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  New  York;  president  of  the  Remington  Typewriter  Com- 
pany; trustee  of  the  American  Bank  Note  Company;  director  of  the, 
First  National  Bank  (Ridgefield),  trustee  Wesleyan  University  and 
is  officially  connected  with  other  concerns.  Governor  Lounsbury 
makes  his  home  in  Ridgefield.  He  has  an  office  on  Broadway,  New 
York. 

MORGAN  G.  BULKELEY 

Governor,    1889- 1893 

Hon.  Morgan  Gardner  Bulkeley,  of  Hartford,  Governor  from 
1889  to  1893,  was  born  in  East  Haddam,  December  26,  1837.  His 
father,  Eliphalet  A.  Bulkeley,  was  a  founder  of  the  Republican  party 
in  Connecticut  and  the  first  president  of  the  ^Etna  Life  Insurance 
Company,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  organizers.     His  mother  was 

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Lydia  Smith  Morgan  of  Colchester.  When  he  was  nine  years  old  the 
family  located  in  Hartford,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools 
until  he  was  fourteen  years  old.  Then,  in  1851,  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  iEtna  Life  Insurance  Company  as  office  sweeper,  with 
wages  of  one  dollar  a  week.  After  a  short  experience  at  this  humble 
occupation  he  went  to  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  he  acted  as  bundle 
boy  in  a  mercantile  house,  known  as  H.  P.  Morgan  &  Company,  in 
which  he  became  a  partner  several  years  later.  In  1861,  in  answer 
to  the  call  for  volunteers  young  Bulkeley  enlisted  in  the  Thirteenth 
Regiment,  New  York  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  served  with  credit 
during  the  Peninsular  Campaign.  After  the  war  he  took  a  keen 
interest  in  politics  and  was  a  member  of  the  Republican  General 
Committee  of  Kings  County.  After  the  death  of  his  father,  he  came 
to  Hartford,  which  has  ever  since  been  his  home.  Soon  after  his 
return  to  Hartford,  he  organized  the  .United  States  Bank  of  that 
city  and  was  its  first  president,  holding  that  office  from  1872  to  1879. 
In  1879,  upon  the  retirement  of  Thomas  O.  finders,  Mr.  Bulkeley 
became  president  of  the  ^tna  Life  Insurance  Company,  which  was 
destined  to  become  under  his  great  organizing  skill,  firm  principles 
and  rare  managerial  genius  an  institution  surpassed  by  none  of  its 
kind  for  progress,  success  and  sound  standing.  Although  the  iEtna 
has  been  his  chief  business  interest,  he  has  had  other  strong  business 
ties,  having  been  a  director  of  the  ^Etna  National  Bank,  the  ^Etna 
Fire  Insurance  Company,  the  United  States  Bank,  all  of  Hartford 
and  in  the  Willimantic  Linen  Company.  A  political  career  equally 
long  and  strong  has  been  achieved  by  Mr.  Bulkeley.  He  was  a 
councilman  in  1875 ;  alderman  in  1876  and  from  1880  to  1888  was 
mayor  of  the  city  of  Hartford.  In  1888  he  was  nominated  by 
acclamation  for  the  office  of  governor  and  in  1889  entered  on  a  notable 
administration.  In  1890,  there  arose  under  the  new  ballot  law  the 
trying  deadlock  situation,  when  the  question  of  succession  to  the 
office  of  governor  could  not  be  settled  and  it  was  Governor  Bulkeley's 
duty  to  remain  in  office  though  legislation  was  in  abeyance.  In  this 
difficult  situation  he  acquitted  himself  with  great  tact  and  judgment. 
When  the  legislature  failed  to  make  needed  appropriations,  he  and 
the  JEtna.  Life  Insurance  Company  advanced  funds  necessary  for 
the  maintenance  of  state  institutions  until  proper  provision  was 
made.  After  his  term  as  Governor  expired  in  1893  he  was  nominated 
for  United  States  Senator,  but  then,  and  two  years  later,  he  with- 
drew in  favor  of  General  Hawley.  Meanwhile  other  honors  were 
his  for  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Convention  in 

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and  1896  and  in  1889  he  was  granted  the  honorary  degree  of 
Master  of  Arts  by  Yale  University.  In  January,  1905,  he  was  elected 
United  States  Senator  to  succeed  General  Hawley  and  served  until 
191 1.  Since  1897,  he  has  been  president  of  the  board  of  Commis- 
sioners of  the  Connecticut  River  Bridge  and  Highway  District,  and 
it  was  through  his  untiring  efforts  the  world  unrivalled  bridge  that 
now  spans  the  Connecticut  between  Hartford  and  East  Hartford, 
was  built  and  dedicated  in  October,  1908.  On  December  3,  1908, 
in  Parsons'  Theatre,  Hartford,  he  was  presented  a  magnificent  silver 
service  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-six  pieces,  as  a  token  of  apprecia- 
tion for  this. great  service  to  his  fellowmen.  In  the  spring  of  191 1, 
he  was  given  a  beautiful  silver  loving  cup  to  mark  the  appreciation 
due  him  for  further  successful  achievements  in  improving  landings 
on  the  Connecticut  River.  Mr.  Bulkeley  has  been  president  of  the 
following  patriotic  organizations :  The  Connecticut  Sons  of  the  Revo- 
lution, the  Society  of  Foreign  Wars  and  the  Society  of  the  War  of 
1812.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Mayflower  Society,  the  Society 
of  Colonial  Wars,  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  the  Massa- 
chusetts Commandery  of  the  Loyal  Legion.  He  is  a  hereditary 
member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  a  Congregationalist,  a 
Free  Mason  and  is  a  member  of  various  local  social  clubs.  On 
February  11,  1885,  Mr.  Bulkeley  married  Fannie  Briggs  Houghton, 
daughter  of  James  and  Caroline  A.  Houghton  of  San  Francisco, 
California. 

O.  VINCENT  COFFIN      . 

Governor,    1895-1897 

Hon.  Owen  Vincent  Coffin,  thirty-eighth  governor  of  Connecti- 
cut (1895-97),  was  born  at  Union  Vale,  Dutchess  Co.,  N.  Y.,  June 
20,  1836,  son  of  Alexander  Hamilton  and  Jane  (Vincent)  Coffin. 
His  first  American  ancestor  on  the  paternal  side  was  Tristram  Coffin, 
a  native  of  England,  who  came  to  the  colonies  in  1642  and  settled  at 
Salisbury,  Mass.,  removing  to  Nantucket  in  1660.  On  his  mother's 
side  he  is  a  descendant  of  Capt.  Israel  Vail  of  the  revolutionary  army. 
Governor  Coffin  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Dutchess 
County,  the  Cortland  Academy,  Homer,  N.  Y.,  and  the  Charlotteville 
(N.  Y.)  Seminary.  He  began  his  business  career  in  New  York  city 
in  1853  in  the  employ  of  his  uncle,  J.  W.  Vincent,  who  was  engaged 
in  a  wholesale  mercantile  business.  During  1855-61  he  was  the 
New  York  agent  of  a  prominent  Connecticut  manufacturing  company. 
In   1864,  he  removed  to  Middletown,  and  was  made  secretary  and 

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treasurer  of  the  Farmers  and  Mechanics  Savings  Bank  of  that  place. 
After  fourteen  years  of  efficient  service  ill  health  from  overwork 
forced  him  to  withdraw  for  a  time  from  active  business.  In  1884  ne 
was  elected  president  of  the  Middlesex  Mutual  Assurance  Co.  of 
Middletown  and  continued  in  active  service  until  1918.  He  has  been 
director  and  vice-president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Middletown ; 
secretary,  treasurer  and  director  of  the  New  Haven,  Middletown  & 
Willimantic  Railroad  Co.,  and  a  director  of  the  Boston  and  New 
York  Air  Line  Co.  In  politics  Mr.  Coffin  has  always  been  a  Repub- 
lican. He  served  as  mayor  of  Middletown  two  years  (1872-73)  ;  state 
senator  for  the  twenty-second  district  in  1887-88  and  again  in  1889- 
90.  He  was  among  the  pioneers  in  encouraging  and  establishing 
Young  Men's  Christian  Associations,  especially  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
and  Middletown,  being  president  of  both  those  associations,  and  for 
years  was  prominent  among  their  most  efficient  advocates.  He  took 
great  interest  in  agricultural  matters,  and  in  1875  was  elected  Presi- 
dent of  the  Middlesex  County  Agricultural  Society.  He  was  first 
assistant  moderator  of  the  Triennial  International  Congregational 
Council  in  Portland,  Ore.,  in  1898;  superintendent  of  Sunday-schools 
in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  Middletown,  for  many  years ;  moderator  of 
the  Congregational  Council  of  Connecticut,  and  president  of  the 
Middletown  Choral  Society,  and  many  other  public  or  semi-public 
organizations.  In  1896  he  received  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D. 
from  Wesleyan  University,  and  although  not  a  college  man  he  is  an 
honorary  member  of  the  college  fraternity  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon.  He 
was  for  years  president  of  the  Middletown  Rifle  Association,  and  also 
served  as  vice-president  of  the  Connecticut  Rifle  Association.  He 
was  married  June  24,  1858,  at  Middletown,  to  Ellen  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Linus  Coe.  Mrs.  Coffin  died  July  23,  19 12.  He  has 
one  son,  Seward  V.  Coffin,  who  is  General  Agent  of  the  Provident 
Life  &  Trust  Co.  of  Philadelphia,  with  headquarters  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 


GEORGE  P.  McLEAN 

Governor,  1901-1903 

The  following  biographical  sketch  of  Hon.  George  P.  McLean, 
Governor  from  1901  to  1903  is  taken  from  the  Official  Congres- 
sional Directory:"  "GEORGE  PAYNE  McLEAN,  Republican,  of 
Simsbury,  was  born  in  Simsbury  October  7,  1857;  graduated  from 
Hartford  High  School;  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1881  and  practiced  in 
Hartford;  member  of  the  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives  in 

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1883-84;  member  of  the  commission  to  revise  the  Connecticut  statutes 
in  1885;  member  of  the  Connecticut  Senate  in  1886;  was  United 
States  district  attorney  for  Connecticut  from  1892  to  1896;  governor 
of  Connecticut  1901-03;  received  the  degree  of  A.  M.  from  Yale 
University  in  1904;  was  nominated  in  Republican  caucus  by  a  vote 
of  113  to  64  for  opposing  candidates,  and  elected  by  the  general 
assembly  by  a  vote  of  158  to  96  for  Homer  S.  Cummings,  Democrat, 
and  1  for  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  Republican.  Was  reelected  to  the 
United  States  Senate,  November  7,  1916,  and  his  term  of  service  will 
expire  March  3,  1923. " 

HENRY  ROBERTS 
Governor,    1905- 1907 

Hon.  Henry  Roberts,  of  Hartford,  Lieutenant-Governor  from 
1903  to  1905  and  Governor  from  1905  to  1907,  was  born  in  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  January  22,  1853.  His  father,  George  Roberts,  was  a  promi- 
nent Connecticut  manufacturer,  who  at  the  time  his  son  was  born  was 
in  business  in  Brooklyn.  The  same  year  he  returned  to  his  native 
state  to  retire  to  a  farm  in  South  Windsor.  His  mother  was  Elvira 
(Evans)  Roberts,  a  descendant  of  John  Taylor,  and  of  Thomas 
Taylor,  to  whom  the  people  of  Deerfield,  Mass.,  have  erected  a  monu- 
ment in  grateful  commemoration  of  his  'bravery  in  the  French  and 
Indian  Wars.  Governor  Roberts  spent  the  early  years  of  his  life  on 
his  father's  farm  in  South  Windsor.  His  first  school  training  was  re- 
ceived at  the  public  schools  of  Hartford.  He  then  attended  the  High 
School  and  after  his  graduation  in  1873  he  entered  Yale  College,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1877.  Having  decided  to 
adopt  the  legal  profession  he  attended  the  Columbia  Law  School  for 
one  year  and  then  the  Yale  Law  School  for  the  same  length  of  time.' 

In  1879  Governor  Roberts  began  his  active  business  career  by 
entering  the  service  of  the  Hartford  Woven  Wire  Company  of  which 
his  father  was  the  president.  He  had  intended  to  practice  law  but 
the  death  of  his  father  compelled  him  to  remain  in  business  to  care 
for  the  large  interests  of  his  family.  Having  inherited  the  executive 
ability  and  commercial  acumen  of  his  father  he  quickly  took  his  place 
among  the  leading  manufacturers  and  business  men  of  the  State. 
By  creating  industries  which  give  useful  employment  to  his  fellow 
citizens,  his  success  has  brought  prosperity  to  many  others.  He 
was  president  of  the  Hartford  Woven  Wire  Mattress  Company  for 
several  years  and  is  now  a  director  in  a  large  number  of  corporations. 

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Among  others  may  be  mentioned  the  Phoenix  National  Bank,  The 
Hartford  Trust  Company,  the  State  Savings  Bank  of  Hartford,  The 
Hartford  Electric  Light  Company,  the  Farmington  River  Power 
Company,  the  States  School,  Winston,  N.  C,  and  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
School,  Springfield,  Mass. 

The  Governor's  career  in  politics  might  be  recited  under  the 
title  "  From  Alderman  to  Governor  in  seven  years ;"  for  within  that 
short  period  of  time  he  rose  from  a  minor  position  in  his  city  to  the 
highest  office  in  the  State.  Like  his  father  he  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican.  In  1897  he  was  elected  an  alderman  in  Hartford. 
In  this  position  he  served  his  fellow  citizens  so  well  that  they  sent 
him  in  1899  to  represent  the  city  in  the  Legislature.  He  remained 
a  member  of  the  lower  house  until  in  1901  he  was  elected  to  the 
Senate  from  the  First  District.  Governor  Roberts  is  a  member  of 
the  Connecticut  Society  of  Colonial  Wars;  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution;  the  Country  Club  at  Farmington;  the  Hartford  Club  and 
other  organizations  of  a  similar  character. 

ROLLIN  S.  WOODRUFF 

Governor,    1907- 1909 

Hon.  Rollin  Simmons  Woodruff,  of  New  Haven,  Lieutenant- 
Governor  from  1905  to  1907  and  Governor  from  1907  to  1909,  was 
born  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  July  14,  1854.  He  traces  his  ancestry  back 
to  Matthew  Woodruff,  who  came  from  England  to  America  in  1636. 
His  parents  were  Jeremiah  Woodruff,  a  Presbyterian  clergyman,  and 
Clarisse  (Thompson)  Woodruff.  When  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age 
the  family  moved  to  New  Haven,  where  he  obtained  the  first  position 
in  life  as  errand  boy  in  a  hardware  store.  His  education  was  limited 
to  that  of  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  a  brief  period 
of  schooling  in  Lansing,  Iowa,  but  his  success  in  all  he  undertook  was 
as  complete  and  as  rapid  as  that  of  any  college  man.  He  engaged  in 
various  financial  and  mercantile  enterprises  in  New  Haven  and  after 
a  number  of  years  became  interested  in  the  firm  of  C.  S.  Mersick  & 
Company,  one  of  the  most  extensive  iron  and  steel  wholesale  dealers 
in  New  England.  He  has,  for  many  years,  been  president  of  the 
firm  and  a  controlling  power  of  its  large  plant  at  New  Haven.  He  is 
also  a  director  in  a  number  of  other  large  corporations.  Governor 
Woodruff  is  a  Republican  and  has  held  many  public  offices.  He  has 
been  president  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  New  Haven  and  in 
1903  was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate,  being  president  pro  tern  of 
the  Senate.  Governor  Woodruff  is  a  member  of  several  prominent 
clubs. 

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FRANK  B.  WEEKS 
Governor,  1909- 191 1 

Hon.  Frank  Bentley  Weeks,  of  Middletown,  in  the  fall  of  1908  was 
elected  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  State  on  the  Republican  ticket  by 
a  plurality  of  40,487,  and  served  for  three  months  and  a  half.  On 
April  21,  1909  Governor  George  L.  Lilley  of  Waterbury  died  in  office 
and  the  next  day  Lieutenant-Governor  Weeks  became  Governor  and 
served  until  191 1.  Governor  Weeks  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Thomas 
Weeks  who  came  from  England  in  1637,  and  from  John  Archer  who 
came  from  Warwickshire,  England  in  1646  and  was  granted  by  James 
the  Second  1250  acres  of  land  in  America,  and  was  made  Lord  of  the 
Manor  of  Fordham,  New  York.  On  the  maternal  side  Governor 
Weeks  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Lion  Gardiner  who  came  from 
England  and  constructed  and  commanded  the  Fort  at  Saybrook  in  1636 
and  1637,  and  of  his  son,  David,  born  in  Saybrook  Fort  in  1636,  and 
who  was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Connecticut.  Governor  Weeks 
is  the  son  of  Daniel  L.  and  Frances  M.  (Edwards)  Weeks,  and  was 
born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  January  20,  1854.  At  the  age  of  thirteen 
he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Middletown.  He  was  educated  in 
public,  private  and  military  schools.  He  was  also  graduated  from 
Eastman  Business  College  in  1872.  His  first  task  was  in  connection 
with  buildings  and  finance  of  the  Connecticut  Hospital  for  the  Insane 
of  Middletown.  At  the  solicitation  of  the  Superintendent  he  was 
elected  to  assist  him  in  business  and  building  problems  in  connection 
with  the  institution  —  an  institution  in  which  Governor  Weeks'  service 
as  a  trustee  and  chairman  of  its  board  for  many  years  have  proved  in- 
valuable to  the  State.  In  1880  he  associated  himself  with  George  A. 
Coles  of  Middletown,  and  they  took  over  the  large  grain  and  milling 
business  of  the  corporation  known  as  Union  Mills,  which  they  con- 
ducted for  fifteen  years  under  the  firm  name  of  Coles  &  Weeks.  Gov- 
ernor Weeks  retired  from  the  milling  business  in  1895  in  order  to  give 
his  full  attention  to  his  personal  affairs  and  many  other  duties.  He 
is  president  of  The  Middletown  Savings  Bank ;  president  of  the  Walter 
Hubbard  Realty  Co.  of  Meriden;  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees 
of  the  Connecticut  State  Hospital  of  Middletown ;  director  of  the  Mid- 
dlesex Mutual  Assurance  Co.  of  Middletown;  was  president  of  the 
Connecticut  Commission  to  the  Atlantic  Exposition  in  1895 ;  and  Re- 
publican Presidential  Elector  in  1904;  was  a  delegate  to  the  Repub- 
lican National  Convention  both  in  1912  and  1916.  He  is  also  trustee 
of  the  Wesleyan  University,  Middletown,  and  in  1909  the  University 
honored  him  with  the  degree  of  LL.D.  Governor  Weeks  was  the  first 
president  of  the  Middletown  Board  of  Trade,  and  has  been  a  member 

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of  the  Court  of  Common  Council  in  the  city.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
University  Club  of  Middletown,  and  a  charter  member  of  the  Middle- 
sex County  Historical  Society;  of  the  Republican  Club  of  New  York 
and  New  England  Society  of  New  York,  and  also  of  the  Society  of 
Colonial  Wars. 

SIMEON  E.  BALDWIN 
Governor,  1911-1915 

Hon.  Simeon  Eben  Baldwin,  of  New  Haven,  Governor  of  Con- 
necticut from  191 1  to  191 5,  was  born  at  New  Haven,  February  5, 
1840,  the  youngest  son  of  Roger  Sherman  Baldwin,  Governor  of  Con- 
necticut and  United  States  Senator,  who  was  a  son  of  Simeon  Bald- 
win, Representative  in  Congress  and  Associate  Judge  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Errors,  and  a  grandson  of  Roger  Sherman,  Signer  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  and  a  leader  in  the  Convention  of  1787 
which  framed  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States. 

On  his  mother's  side  he  is  a  descendant  of  Governors  Haynes, 
Wyllys,  and  Pitkin,  of  Connecticut.  He  was  educated  at  the  Hopkins 
Grammar  School  of  New  Haven,  Yale  College,  the  Yale  and  Harvard 
Law  Schools,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  New  Haven  in  1863, 
where  he  practiced  his  profession  before  both  the  State  and  United 
States  courts  for  thirty  years.  He  occasionally  appeared  also  in  the 
argument  of  important  causes  in  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island,  and 
New  York,  as  well  as  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States. 

In  1869  he  was  appointed  an  instructor  in  the  Yale  Law  School 
and  in  1872  a  Professor.  At  the  latter  date  he  withdrew  from  prac- 
tice in  the  inferior  courts,  and  until  his  election  as  Governor,  gave 
one  or  two  days  a  week  through  the  year  to  the  duties  of  his  professor- 
ship. The  main  subjects  which  he  taught  were  Constitutional  Law, 
Railroad  Law,  and  Private  International  Law.  He  has  also  delivered 
the  Southworth  lectures  in  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  a  course 
of  lectures  in  Private  International  Law  in  the  University  of  Mary- 
land, a  course  of  lectures  on  Wills  in  Howard  University,  and  another 
on  American  Law  in  Vassar  College.  In  19 19  he  resigned  his  pro- 
fessorship at  Yale,  and  was  appointed  Professor  of  Laws  Emeritus. 

In  1872  he  was  appointed  by  the  General  Assembly  one  of  a 
commission  to  revise  the  education  laws  of  Connecticut,  and  in  1873 
one  of  a  similar  body  for  the  revision  of  all  the  public  laws.  The 
general  statutes  had  been  arranged  in  all  prior  revisions  alphabetically 
by  topics.  He  advocated  and  carried  through  an  arrangement  of  the 
various  heads  in  their  natural  order,  which  has  ever  since  been 
followed. 

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In  1875  he  brought  forward  in  Yale  University  a  plan  for  giving 
advanced  instruction  in  the  Law  Department  to  those  who  had  already- 
received  a  degree  of  bachelor  of  laws.  A  course  of  graduate  study 
was  suggested,  leading  to  the  degrees  of  Master  of  Laws  and  Doctor 
of  Civil  Law.  This  measure  received  the  approval  of  the  University, 
and  was  put  into  effect  in  1876.  Graduate  courses  of  a  similar  nature, 
patterned  after  those  of  Yale  University,  have  since  been  introduced 
into  a  number  of  the  American  law  schools. 

In  1877  he  obtained  the  approval  by  the  State  Bar  Association  of 
a  proposition  brought  forward  by  him  to  abolish  the  distinction  be- 
tween law  and  equity  as  applicable  to  the  form  of  civil  actions.  This 
resulted  in  his  appointment  on  a  legislative  commission  to  accomplish 
this  change,  and  he  had  a  large  share  in  preparing  the  Practice  Act  by 
which  it  was  effected,  and  the  Rules  of  Court  under  it.  In  1885  he 
was  appointed  on  a  commission  to  report  to  the  General  Assembly 
on  methods  of  taxation,  and  was  influential  in  thus  securing  the 
adoption  of  several  measures  which  added  largely  to  the  revenues  of 
the  State. 

In  1878  he  was  one  of  a  few  citizens  who  initiated  the  move- 
ment which  led  to  the  establishment  of  an  extensive  system  of  parks 
in  New  Haven,  and  was  elected  one  of  the  three  life  members  of  the 
city  Park  Commission. 

In  ithe  same  year  he  suggested  to  the  State  Bar  Association  of 
Connecticut  that  it  should  take  the  initiative  in  endeavoring  to  secure 
the  foundation  of  a  national  bar  association.  He  was  appointed  one 
of  a  committee  raised  for  that  purpose,  and  conducted  the  prelimi- 
nary correspondence,  which  was  necessarily  extensive.  The  result 
was  the  organization  in  1878,  of  the  American  Bar  Association,  of 
which  he  has  been  called  the  founder,  and  which  has  had  an  im- 
portant and  growing  influence  throughout  the  Union. 

In  1893  he  was  appointed  an  Associate  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Errors,  and  in  1907  Chief  Justice,  serving  until  retired 
under  the  age  limit. 

He  has  been  president  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  Historical 
Society,  the  American  Historical  Association,  the  American  Bar 
Association,  the  Association  of  American  Law  Schools,  the  Interna- 
tional Law  Association,  the  American  Social  Science  Association,  the 
American  Political  Science  Association,  and  the  American  Society 
for  the  Judicial  Settlement  of  International  Disputes,  and  is  now 
president  of  the  Connecticut  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  the 
Trustees    of    the    Hopkins    Grammar    School,    and    the    Connecticut 

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Society  of  the  Archaeological  Institute  of  America,  and  Director  of 
the  Bureau  of  Comparative  Law  of  the  American  Bar  Association. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,  the  American 
Philosophical  Society,  and  the  National  Institute  of  Arts  and  Letters, 
a  fellow  of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science, 
and  a  corresponding  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society, 
the  Colonial  Society  of  Massachusetts,  and  the  Institut  de  Droit 
Compare  of  Brussels.  He  received  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D. 
from  Harvard  in  1891,  and  later  from  Columbia,  Wesleyan  and  Yale. 

He  has  published  a  Digest  of  the  Connecticut  Law  Reports, 
"  Modern  Political  Institutions,"  "American  Railroad  Law,"  "  Illus- 
trative Cases  on  Railroad  Law,"  "  The  American  Judiciary,"  "  Educa- 
tion and  Citizenship,"  and  "  The  Young  Man  and  the  Law."  He  was 
also  one  of  the  authors  of  "  Two  Centuries  Growth  of  American 
Law,"  and  has  contributed  numerous  articles  to  magazines  and  trans- 
actions of  societies  in  the  United  States,  Great  Britain,  France,  Ger- 
many, Belgium,  and  Switzerland.  He  prepared  the  definitions  of 
terms  of  jurisprudence  given  in  the  "  Dictionary  of  Philosophy," 
printed  at  Oxford  in  1902,  and  the  article  on  United  States  Law  in 
the  Encyclopedia  Brittanica. 

In  1900  he  was,  under  appointment  from  the  Department  of 
State,  a  delegate  from  the  United  States  to  the  Congres  International 
Pendtentiare  at  Brussels,  and  in  1905  to  that  at  Budapest.  In  1904 
he  was  vice-president  for  the  United  States  of  the  Universal  Con- 
gress of  Jurists  and  Lawyers,  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

He  has  been  moderator  of  the  State  Conference  of  Congrega- 
tional Churches  of  Connecticut,  and  president  of  the  New  Haven 
Congregational  Club,  and  is  a  director  in  the  Missionary  Society  of 
Connecticut,  and  a  corporate  member  of  the  American  Board  of  Com- 
missioners for  Foreign  Missions. 

Before  going  on  the  bench,  he  had  been  an  active  member  of 
the  Democratic  party,  and  when  appointed  was  president  of  the  State 
Democratic  Club,  and  of  the  Monticello  Club  in  New  Haven,  which 
then  occupied  a  club  house  on  Temple  street.  He  retired  from  the 
bench  in  1910,  on  reaching  the  age  of  seventy,  under  the  constitu- 
tional provision  to  that  effect,  and  was  elected  Governor  on  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket  in  the  fall  of  that  year. 

At  the  Democratic  State  Convention  held  at  Bridgeport,  on  May 
2,  1912,  resolutions  were  unanimously  passed  instructing  the  Con- 
necticut delegates  to  the  Democratic  National  Convention  to  be  held 
at  Baltimore,  June  25,   1912,  to  place  in  nomination,  vote   for,  and 

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support  Governor  Baldwin  as  candidate  for  President  of  the  United 
States.  He  received  the  votes  of  two  States  in  the  Convention.  In 
1914,  he  was  the  candidate  of  the  Democratic  party  for  United  States 
Senate,  but  was  defeated  at  the  election  by  Senator  Brandegee. 


MARCUS  H.  HOLCOMB 

Governor,    191 5  — 

Hon.  Marcus  Hensey  Holcomb  of  Southington,  Governor  of 
Connecticut  since  191 5,  was  born  at  New  Hartford,  November  28, 
1844.  He  is  the  son  of  Carlos  and  Adah  (Bushnell)  Holcomb,  and 
traces  his  New  England  ancestry  to  Thomas  Holcomb,  born  in  Wales 
in  1 601,  who  came  to  Massachusetts  in  1629,  settling  at  Dorchester, 
and  in  1634  located  at  Windsor.  He  represented  Windsor  and  Hart- 
ford at  the  framing  of  the  Constitution  of  Connecticut  Colony  in 
1639,  and  it  is  fitting  that  now,  over  two  and  three  quarter  centuries 
later,  Governor  Holcomb,  a  lineal  descendant,  should  be  charged  with 
the  enforcement  of  the  provisions  of  the  constitution  of  the  State 
born  of  the  Colonial  constitution  Thomas  Holcomb  helped  to  frame. 
Governor  Holcomb's  boyhood  and  youth  were  spent  in  attendance 
at  public  school  and  on  his  father's  farm.  He  then  for  a  number 
of  years  taught  school  and  studied  law,  under  the  direction  of  Judge 
Jared  B.  Foster,  an  eminent  member  of  the  Connecticut  bar.  On 
November  15,  1871,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Litchfield,  and 
has  practiced  at  Southington,  since  1872.  In  1876  he  was  elected 
probate  judge  for  the  Southington  district,  and  was  also  judge  of  the 
Southington  town  court  from  the  time  the  court  was  instituted  until 
his  election  as  Attorney-General.  He  was  Attorney-General  from 
January,  1907  to  September  10,  1910,  when  he  resigned  to  become  a 
judge  of  the  Superior  Court.  In  1893  he  was  elected  treasurer  of  the 
County  of  Hartford,  serving  until  1908.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Senate  in  1893,  a  delegate  to  the  Constitutional  Convention  in  1902, 
Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  in  1905,  Member  of  the 
Republican  State  Central  Committee  several  years,  and  has  served 
on  many  State  Commissions  at  different  times.  In  1914,  having 
reached  the  age  limit  of  seventy  years,  fixed  by  law,  he  was  retired 
as  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  and  in  November  of  the  same  year 
was  elected  Governor  of  the  State,  and  now  has  the  great  honor  of 
serving  his  third  term.  No  other  Governor  has  served  so  long  as 
Governor  Holcomb,  the  past  one  hundred  years,  except  William  A. 
Buckingham  of  Norwich,  the  "  war  governor  "  who  served  from  1858 
to  1866.     Governor  Holcomb  holds  numerous  positions  of  honor  and 

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trust  being  president  of  the  Southington  Savings  Bank,  a  director  of 
the  Southington  National  Bank,  The  Peck,  Stow  &  Wilcox  Go.,  The 
iEtna  Nut  Co.,  The  Southington  Cutlery  Co.,  and  National  Fire  In- 
surance Company.  He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Orders  of  Knights  of  Pythias,  Elks,  Red  Men,  Foresters, 
Mechanics  and  of  the  Grange. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Southington. 
chairman  of  its  Board  of  Trustees  and  for  thirty  years  was  super- 
intendent of  its  Sunday  School.  He  was  married  to  Sarah  Carpenter 
Bennett  on  October  16,  1872,  who  died  December  3,  1901.  Governor 
Holcomb  has  proved  to  be  a  distinguished  "  war  governor  "  and  by 
his  faithfulness  and  wonderful  executive  ability  has  inspired  the 
commonwealth  to  a  patriotism  that  has  become  historical  record. 


LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORS 

LYMAN  A.  MILLS 

Lieutenant-Governor,  1 899-1 901 

Hon.  Lyman  Allen  Mills,  of  Middlefield,  Lieutenant-Governor 
from  1899  to  1901,  was  born  in  Middlefield  (then  a  part  of  Middle- 
town)  February  25,  1841.  He  is  the  son  of  Rev.  Charles  Lewis  and 
Elizabeth  Coe  (Lyman)  Mills,  and  through  his  father  is  descended 
from  John  and  Priscilla  Alden,  of  the  Mayflower  Pilgrims  (1620) 
and  through  his  mother  is  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Welles,  fourth 
Governor  of  the  Colony  of  Connecticut  (1655  and  1658).  He  was 
educated  in  the  academies  of  Durham,  Conn.,  and  North  Bridgewater, 
Mass.  He  has  successfully  devoted  himself  chiefly  to  manufacturing 
and  to  the  care  and  management  of  various  properties  and  estates. 
He  is  president  of  the  Lyman  Gun  Sight  Corporation ;  director  of  the 
American  Wringer  Company;  president  of  The  Levi  E.  Coe  Library 
Association ;  trustee  of  the  Middletown  Savings  Bank  and  holds  other 
positions  of  trust  and  responsibility.  Mr.  Mills  has  been  for  many 
years  a  breeder  of  choice  Jersey  cattle,  and  has  advanced  the  interests 
of  dairy  farming  in  America  through  the  well-known  herds  of  Jerseys 
raised  upon  his  farm.  Jerseys  bred  by  him  have  become  famous 
prize-winners,  including  the  cow  Figgis,  champion  and  grand 
champion  at  the  great  exhibition  of  Jerseys  at  the  World's  Fair  at 
St.  Louis  in  1904.  On  June  6,  1866,  Mr.  Mills  married  Jane  Louisa, 
daughter  of  Deacon  Alfred  Andrews  of  New  Britain.  Mr.  Mills  is  a 
Republican  and  represented  his  town  in  the  General  Assembly  of 
1895.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution. 

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EDWIN  O.  KEELER 

Lieutenant-Governor,  1 901 -1903 

Hon.  Edwin  O.  Keeler,  of  Norwalk,  Lieutenant-Governor  from 
1901  to  1903,  was  born  in  Ridgefield,  January  12,  1846.  He  was 
educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native  town.  When  fifteen  years  of 
age  he  went  to  Norwalk  to  live  and  in  1867  he  became  interested  in 
the  grocery  business  and  was  successfully  engaged  in  this  line,  being 
a  member  of  the  wholesale  grocery  firm  of  Holmes,  Keeler  &  Selleck 
Co.  for  many  years.  In  1894  he  had  the  honor  of  being  elected  first 
Mayor  of  the  city  of  Norwalk.  A  year  previous  to  this  he  was 
chosen  President  of  the  Fairfield  County  National  Bank,  succeeding 
the  late  United  States  Treasurer  Hyatt,  also  Director  in  the  Nor- 
walk Hospital.  He  is  an  ex-President  of  the  Norwalk  Club,  as  well 
as  a  director  in  many  other  companies.  He  is  one  of  the  prominent 
Knights  Templar  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  B.  P 
O.  Elks.  He  has  had  the  honor  of  serving  five  consecutive  terms  in 
the  Legislature.  In  1893  and  1895  he  was  a  member  of  the  House; 
1897  and  1899,  a  member  of  the  Senate  and  in  1901,  as  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  was  President  of  the  Senate.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the 
National  Republican  Convention,  at  St.  Louis,  in  1896. 


HENRY  ROBERTS 
Lieutenant-Governor,  1903- 1905 
(See  Governors  for  biographical  sketch.) 

ROLLIN  S.  WOODRUFF 
Lieutenant-Governor,  1905- 1907 
(See  Governors  for  biographical  sketch.) 

EVERETT  J.  LAKE 

Lieutenant-Governor,  1907- 1909 

Hon.  Everett  John  Lake,  of  Hartford,  Lieutenant-Governor  from 
1907  to  1909,  is  the  son  of  Thomas  A.  and  Martha  A.  (Cockings) 
Lake,  and  was  born  in  Woodstock,  February  8,  1871.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  High  School  at  Stromburg,  Neb.,  in  the  class  of  1887, 
and  in  1890  was  graduated  from  the  Worcester  Polytechnic  Institute, 

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and  in  1892  was  graduated  from  Harvard  College.  Mr.  Lake,  on 
September  4,  1895,  married  Eva  Louise  Sykes,  daughter  of  George 
Sykes,  a  prominent  manufacturer  of  Rockville.  Mr.  Lake  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  School  Visitors  of  Hartford.  He  is  a. 
director  of  the  Hartford  National  Bank,  and  the  Riverside  Trust  Co. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  major's  staff  of  the  First  Company,  Gov- 
ernor's Foot  Guard,  and  president  and  treasurer  of  the  Hartford' 
Lumber  Company.  Mr.  Lake  is  a  Republican  and  was  a  member  of 
the  House  of  Representatives  in  1903  and  of  the  Senate  in  1905.  He: 
is  a  member  of  several  prominent  clubs  and  societies. 


FRANK  B.  WEEKS 
Lieutenant-Governor,    1909 
(See  Governors  for  biographical  sketch). 


DENNIS  A.  BLAKESLEE 

Lieutenant-Governor,  1911-1913 

Hon.  Dennis  A.  Blakeslee,  of  New  Haven,  Lieutenant-Governor 
from  191 1  to  1913,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  March  11,  1856  and  is 
the  son  of  Charles  W.  and  Martha  J.  (Waters)  Blakeslee.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  New  Haven  and  on  December  4, 
1878  married  Lizzie  F.  Law,  daughter  of  Wyllis  A.  and  Harriett  A. 
Law.  He  is  a  Republican  and  was  Councilman  in  1881  and  1882, 
Fire  Commissioner  from  1887  to  1893,  and  a  member  of  the  Senate 
two  consecutive  sessions,  1907  and  1909.  He  served  twenty-five  years 
with  the  2nd  Company  of  Governor's  Horse  Guards  and  was  in  com- 
mand eight  years.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Society's  Committee 
of  the  Dwight  Place  Congregational  Church,  a  director  in  Mechanics 
Bank  and  the  Security  Insurance  Company,  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  Seymour  Water  Company,  president  of  Connecticut  Hassam  Pave- 
ment Company,  president  New  Haven  Mercantile  Safe  Deposit  Com- 
pany, and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  New  Haven  Street  Sprin- 
kling Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  in  charge  of 
erecting  the  new  county  Court  House  in  New  Haven,  and  president 
of  the  Saybrook  and  Lyme  Connecticut  River  Bridge  Commission. 
Mr.  Blakeslee  is  a  prominent  contractor,  being  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  C.  W.  Blakeslee  &  Sons. 

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LYMAN  T.  TINGIER 

Lieutenant-Governor,  1913-1915 

Hon.  Lyman  Twining  Tingier,  of  Rockville,  town  of  Vernon, 
Lieutenant-Governor  from  191 3  to  191 5,  was  born  in  Webster,  Mass., 
June  9,  1862.  He  is  the  son  of  Seymour  Allen  and  Sarah  (Twining) 
Tingier.  His  early  training  was  received  in  the  public  schools  of 
Webster  and  at  Nichols  Academy,  Dudley,  Mass.  He  studied  law 
at  Yale  University  and  was  graduated  from  the  Yale  Law  School 
with  the  class  of  1888,  in  which  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
In  1889  he  located  in  Rockville,  where  he  has  since  successfully 
practiced  his  profession.  He  has  held  several  public  offices  including: 
judge  of  probate  for  the  District  of  Ellington  (Vernon  and  Ellington) 
from  1890  to  1895 ;  judge  of  the  City  Court  of  Rockville  from  1899  to 
1903;  Mayor  of  the  city  of  Rockville,  1912-1914  and  has  been  clerk 
of  the  Superior  Court  for  Tolland  County  since  1893.  Judge  Tingier 
was  a  delegate  to  the  Democratic  National  Convention,  at  Chicago,  in 
1896;  was  the  Democratic  candidate  for  Governor  in  191 4  and  was 
a  member  of  the  General  Assembly  two  sessions,  1909  and  191 1. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Savings  Bank  of  Rockville,  and  also  served 
as  chairman  of  the  Rockville  High  School  Committee.  In  local  frater- 
nal circles  he  is  affiliated  with  the  Masons,  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
Foresters. 

CLIFFORD  B.  WILSON 

Lieutenant-Governor,  1915  — 

Hon.  Clifford  Brittin  Wilson,  of  Bridgeport,  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor since  1915,  was  born  December  2,  1879,  at  Bridgeport,  and  has 
lived  there  all  his  life.  He  obtained  his  preliminary  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  city,  later  attending  the  High  School,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1898.  He  possessed  a  strong  taste  for  the 
law  in  early  youth,  and  upon  the  completion  of  his  studies  he  devoted 
his  attention  to  that  subject  in  the  office  of  Edward  P.  Nobbs,  a 
prominent  attorney  of  Bridgeport.  In  1899,  while  he  was  yet  a 
student  of  law,  he  was  appointed  assistant  clerk  of  the  Probate  Dis- 
trict of  Bridgeport.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  January,  1902, 
and  at  once  began  the  active  practice  of  his  profession.  Two  years 
later  he  entered  into  partnership  with  Henry  C.  Stevenson,  an  associa- 
tion which  continued  until  the  year  191 5.  In  1907,  Mr.  Wilson  was 
elected  alderman  from  the  fifth  district,  serving  in  that  capacity  until 
1909,  in  which  year  he  was  appointed  coroner  for  Fairfield  County, 

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which  office  he  resigned  on  January  i,  1912.  In  1909  he  also  became 
president  of  the  common  council  and  served  as  acting  mayor  of 
Bridgeport.  In  November,  191 1,  he  received  the  election  of  Mayor 
of  Bridgeport,  the  term  of  service  being  for  two  years.  He  was  re- 
elected mayor  in  November,  1913,  1915,  1917  and  1919.  Mr.  Wilson 
has  been  active  in  many  departments  of  the  public  life  of  his  native  city, 
and  particularly  so  in  the  militia  of  his  State.  He  held  various  offices 
in  the  Third  Regiment,  which  afterwards  became  the  Fourth  Com- 
pany, Coast  Artillery,  and  he  is  now  on  the  State  retired  list  as  cap- 
tain of  militia. 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order  for  many  years  and 
is  particularly  active  therein.  He  is  a  member  of  all  the  bodies  con- 
nected with  that  order,  including  the  Pyramid  Temple,  Ancient  Arabic 
Order  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  has  taken  his  Knight  Templar 
and  thirty-second  degrees  in  Masonry.  He  is  also  a  member  of  and 
past  grand  of  Pequonnock  Lodge  No.  4,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows;  past  chief  patriarch  of  Stratfield  Encampment,  No.  23,  of 
the  same  order,  a  member  of  Bridgeport  Lodge,  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks,  and  Franklin  Bartlett  Camp,  No.  11,  Sons  of 
Veterans. 

Mr.  Wilson  was  united  in  marriage,  November  10,  1914,  to 
Anastasia  C,  daughter  of  Patrick  and  Mary  E.  (Cahill)  Dorsey,  of 
Middletown.  He  was  appointed  Colonel  of  the  Fourth  Military  Dis- 
trict in  191 7. 

SECRETARIES 

THOMAS  M.  WALLER 
Secretary,    1 870-1 871 
(See   Governors    for  biographical   sketch.) 

CHARLES  E.  SEARLS 

Secretary,    1881-1883 

Hon.  Charles  Edwin  Searls,  of  Thompson,  Secretary  of  State 
from  1881  to  1883,  was  born  in  Pomfret,  March  25,  1846  and  has 
resided  in  Thompson  since  he  was  eleven  years  of  age.  He  was 
graduated  from  Thompson  Academy  in  1864,  and  entered  Yale  Uni- 
versity the  same  year,  graduating  in  the  class  of  1868.  He  then 
entered  the  law  office  of  Hon.  Gilbert  W.  Phillips,  of  Putnam,  and  in 
1870  was  admitted  to  the  bar.    He  at  once  opened  an  office  in  Putnam 

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where  he  has  since  successfully  continued  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession, being  now  senior  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Searls,  Russell 
and  Bradford.  He  has  held  the  office  of  State's  Attorney  for  Wind- 
ham County  since  1893,  has  twice  represented  Thompson  in  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  in  1871  and  1886;  and  in  1909  was  leader  of  the 
Senate,  being  chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Committee.  In  1896,  he  was 
a  delegate  from  this  State  to  the  Republican  National  Convention  at 
St.  Louis.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Bar  Association,  and 
has  been  president  of  the  Connecticut  State  Bar  Association  since 
January,  1918.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  National  Council  of  the 
National  Economic  League,  and  has  been  active  in  various  patriotic 
enterprises.  He  has  served  his  town  as  Town  Clerk,  Justice  of  the 
Peace  and  School  Visitor;  is  a  trustee  of  the  Day-Kimball  Hospital 
and  has  been  a  director  of  the  Thompson  National  Bank  and  other 
institutions.  Mr.  Searls  is  a  member  of  Psi  Upsilon  and  Wolf's 
Head  Societies,  both  of  Yale.  On  October  8,  1902,  he  married  Miss 
Sarah  Alice  Fell  of  Boston,  Mass. 

JOHN  J.  PHELAN 
Secretary,    1893- 1895 

Hon.  John  Joseph  Phelan,  of  Bridgeport,  Secretary  of  State, 
1 893- 1 895,  was  born  at  Wexford,  Ireland,  June  24th,  1851  ;  son  of 
Michael  and  Catherine  (White)  Phelan;  graduate  of  Christian 
Brothers  School,  Wexford,  1865 ;  worked  for  father  in  granite  busi- 
ness 1865-70;  came  to  United  States  and  settled  at  Bridgeport,  in 
1870;  granite  and  marble  cutter,  1870-74;  in  granite  and  marble 
business,  1874-78;  LL.B.,  University  of  City  of  New  York,  1878; 
married  December  25,  1879,  Annie  E.  Fitzgerald.  Engaged  in  prac- 
tice of  law  at  Bridgeport  since  1878;  alderman  1880-84;  township 
attorney,  1884-85 ;  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  1885-87 
(Democratic  nominee  for  speaker  1886)  ;  City  Attorney,  Bridgeport, 
1889-90;  elected  Secretary  of  State  of  Connecticut,  1890,  but  did  not 
serve  owing  to  contest  of  election  of  Governor  Morris;  reelected, 
1892,  serving  1893-95.  Member  of  American  Bar  Association; 
Chairman  of  Connecticut  delegation  to  Catholic  Congress,  Chicago 
Exposition,  1893;  president  Irish  Land  League,  Bridgeport,  1881-82; 
Supreme  Knight,  Knights  of  Columbus,  1886-97;  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Apportionment  of  Bridgeport  from  1909-1912;  President  of 
Board  of  Apportionment,  1911-12;  appointed  by  the  Judges  of 
Supreme  and  Superior  Courts  Coroner  of  Fairfield  County  in  1912, 
the  present  term  ending  in  June,  192 1. 
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CHARLES  PHELPS 

Secretary,    1897- 1899 

Hon.  Charles  Phelps,  of  Vernon  (Rockville),  Secretary  of  State 
from  1897  to  1899,  was  nominated  by  the  Republicans  for  the  office 
of  Attorney-General  in  1898;  was  elected  and  served  the  State  in 
that  position  from  1899  to  1903.  The  office  was  a  new  one  and  Mr. 
Phelps  was  the  first  official  to  hold  it.  Mr.  Phelps  was  born  in  East 
Hartford,  August  10,  1852.  His  father  was  the  Rev.  B.  C.  Phelps, 
a  retired  Methodist  clergyman,  who  lived  in  Vernon.  Mr.  Phelps 
was  educated  at  the  East  Greenwich  Academy,  and  at  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity from  which  last  mentioned  institution  he  was  graduated  in 
1875.  He  then  began  to  study  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  B.  H.  Bill, 
of  Rockville,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1877.  He  began  the 
practice  of  the  law  in  Tolland,  but  subsequently  returned  to  Rockville, 
where  he  has  since  successfully  practiced.  Mr.  Phelps  was  the  first 
coroner  of  Tolland  County,  and  served  from  1883  until  his  appointment 
as  State's  Attorney  in  1904  a  position  he  creditably  filled  for  many 
years.  He  represented  the  town  of  Vernon  in  the  General  Assembly 
of  1885.  In  1892  he  was  chosen  Senator  from  the  twenty-third  dis- 
trict and  was  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  republican  side  in  the  session  of 
1893.  It  was  an  exceptional  session,  in  that  there  were  but  two  repub- 
lican lawyers,  Messrs.  Phelps  and  Holcomb,  in  an  evenly  divided 
Senate.  Mr.  Phelps  was  a  delegate  to  the  Constitutional  Convention 
in  1902.  When  Rockville  became  a  city,  Senator  Phelps  was  appointed 
city  attorney  and  prosecuting  attorney,  which  offices  he  held  for 
several  years. 

CHARLES  G.  R.  VINAL 

Secretary,    1901-1905 

Hon.  Charles  Green  Rich  Vinal,  of  Middletown,  Secretary  of 
State  from  1901  to  1905,  was  born  January  14,  1840,  at  Monroe, 
Maine.  He  is  seventh  in  descent  from  John  Vinal  and  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Nicholas  Baker  who  settled  in  Scituate,  Mass.,  in 
1636.  He  was  graduated  from  Wesleyan  University  in  1861.  In 
1862  he  served  as  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Twenty-fourth  Regiment  of 
Connecticut  Volunteers.  Mr.  Vinal  has  been  Mayor  of  Middletown, 
town  Treasurer,  Judge  of  Probate,  and  for  the  past  fifty-two  years 
Clerk  of  the  Superior  Court  for  Middlesex  County.  He  retired  from 
the  office  of  Clerk,  July  11,  1919.  Mr.  Vinal  was  married  in  1865  to 
M.    Amelia    Hotchkiss,    daughter    of    the    Ex-Lieutenant-Governor, 

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Julius  Hotchkiss  and  member  of  the  Fortieth  Congress.  He  is  a 
member  of  St.  John's  Lodge,  No.  2,  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  Mansfield  Post, 
No.  53,  G.  A.  R.  Mr.  Vinal  was  a  member  of  the  Senate  two  con- 
secutive sessions,  1897  and  1899. 


THEODORE  BODENWEIN 

Secretary,    1905- 1909 

The  career  of  Hon.  Theodore  Bodenwein,  Secretary  of  State 
from  1905  to  1909,  and  proprietor  of  the  New  London  Day,  is  a 
striking  example  of  the  possibilities  of  American  citizenship.  Born 
in  Dusseldorf,  Prussia,  January  25,  1864,  he  came  to  this  country  at 
the  age  of  five,  the  child  of  German  parents  in  humble  circumstances. 
He  attained  his  education  in  a  country  school  in  Groton.  At  an  early 
age  he  showed  an  aptitude  for  the  printer's  trade  and  in  1881  he  be- 
came an  apprentice  in  the  office  of  the  New  London  Day.  He  passed 
through  the  different  branches  of  the  business  and  from  close  appli- 
cation and  observation  obtained  a  practical  knowledge  of  the  news- 
paper business,  besides  becoming  a  ready  and  forceful  writer.  In 
1885  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Morning  Telegraph,  which 
succeeded  the  old  Evening  Telegram.  He  remained  with  the  Tele- 
graph in  various  capacities  for  five  years,  when  he  disposed  of  his 
interests.  In  September,  1891,  he  purchased  the  New  London  Day, 
paying  what  was  considered  an  enormous  price,  nearly  $26,000.  The 
Day  had  been  leading  a  checkered  career  for  ten  years  and  was  heav- 
ily encumbered  with  debt,  but  in  a  remarkably  short  time,  Mr.  Boden- 
wein brought  order  out  of  chaos,  and,  since  then  has  conducted  one 
of  the  most  prosperous  and  finely  equipped  newspaper  plants  in 
Connecticut.  Mr.  Bodenwein  is  a  Republican  and  has  served  as  an 
Alderman  and  as  Sewer  Commissioner  of  the  city  of  New  London. 
He  is  a  member  of  numerous  clubs  and  societies. 


MATTHEW  H.  ROGERS 
Secretary,    1909- 191 3 

Hon.  Matthew  H.  Rogers,  Secretary  of  State  from  1909  to  1913, 
was  born  in  Cornwall,  January  19,  1861  and  is  the  son  of  the  late 
Francis  and  Susan  Rogers.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  Cornwall,  which  was  supplemented  by  a  course  in 
business  college,  before  attaining  his  majority  he  had  laid  the  founda- 
tion for  a  successful  business  career.     He  is  Treasurer  and  General 

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Manager  of  the  Fairchild  &  Shelton  Co.,  Director  of  the  Commercial 
Bank  &  Trust  Co.  and  is  the  sole  owner  of  a  large  Iron  &  Steel  In- 
dustry of  Bridgeport.  Mr.  Rogers  has  been  a  resident  of  Bridgeport 
since  1880.  In  1893  and  1894  he  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Alderman  and  in  1895  and  1896  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Relief,  in  1897  was  elected  to  the  General  Assembly. 
In  1901  and  1902  served  as  aide-de-camp  on  Governor  George 
P.  McLean's  staff  and  1903  and  1904  was  paymaster  on  Governor 
Abiram  Chamberlain's  staff.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Yellow  Mill 
Bridge  Commission  and  for  six  years  served  as  chairman  of  the  Pav- 
ing and  Sewer  Commission  which  had  the  supervision  of  all  sewers 
and  permanent  paving  of  his  city.  Mr.  Rogers  was  married  on  Janu- 
ary 10,  1883  to  Miss  Nellie  Forestelle  of  Warren.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Seaside  Club,  the  Algonquin  Club,  the  Seaside  Outing  Club, 
the  Bridgeport  Yacht  Club  and  the  Calumet  Club. 


ALBERT  PHILLIPS 

Secretary,    1913-1915 

Hon.  Albert  Phillips,  of  Stamford,  Secretary  of  State  from  1913 
to  191 5,  is  a  native  of  New  Britain  and  is  thirty-one  years  of  age. 
He  was  one  of  the  youngest  members  of  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives the  session  of  191 1.  He  is  a  prominent  lawyer  and  Democrat 
and  has  held  the  position  of  prosecuting  attorney  in  Stamford. 

CHARLES  D.  BURNES 

Secretary,    1915-1917 

Hon.  Charles  D.  Burnes,  of  Greenwich,  Secretary  of  State  from 
191 5  to  191 7,  was  born  in  Berlin,  August  4,  1871,  and  is  the  son  of 
Harvey  E.  and  Grace  L.  (Andrew)  Burnes.  He  attended  Wesleyan 
University  two  years  in  the  class  of  1892,  was  graduated  from  Yale 
Law  School  in  the  class  of  1893  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  the  same 
year  and  immediately  began  to  practice  at  South  Norwalk.  Mr. 
Burnes  came  to  Greenwich  in  July,  1894,  where  he  continued  to  prac- 
tice law.  He  is  a  Republican  and  the  year  he  came  to  Greenwich  was 
elected  Deputy  Registrar  of  Voters  and  Clerk  of  the  Borough 
Court  and  in  1897  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Borough  Court.  He  has 
also  been  chairman  of  the  High  School  Committee  and  Clerk  of  the 
School  District.  Mr.  Burnes  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives in   1907  and  1909.     He  is  now  a  resident  of  Springfield, 

Mass. 

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FREDERICK  L.  PERRY 
Secretary,  1917 — 
Hon.  Frederick  L.  Perry,  of  New  Haven,  Secretary  of  State 
since  1917,  was  born  at  Manchester,  March  14,  1871.  Was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  and  in  Beacon  Academy,  at  Colchester.  Was 
admitted  to  the  Bar  in  1897  after  having  graduated  from  Yale  Law 
School.  He  is  a  Republican  and  was  president  of  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men for  two  terms,  1910  to  1914.  Represented  New  Haven  in  Gen- 
eral Assembly  of  1915.  Elected  Secretary  of  State  in  1916  and  re- 
elected in  1918.  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen  of  New  Haven 
which  passed  out  of  existence  at  the  time  of  the  consolidation  of  town 
and  city  governments  in  1897.  Was  also  Secretary  of  Shell-Fish 
Commission  for  a  number  of  years  previous  to  becoming  Secretary 
of  State. 

TREASURERS 

E.  STEVENS  HENRY 
Treasurer,  1889- 1893 
Hon.  Edward  Stevens  Henry,  of  Vernon  (Rockville),  State 
Treasurer  from  1889  to  1893,  was  born  in  Gill,  Mass.,  February  10, 
1836.  He  is  the  oldest  son  of  Edward  F.  and  Eliza  A.  (Stevens) 
Henry.  At  the  age  of  twelve  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Rock- 
ville, where  he  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that  town.  At 
the  age  of  nineteen  he  entered  the  dry  goods  business  and  soon  be- 
came actively  interested  in  the  organization  and  management  of  the 
leading  financial  institutions  of  Rockville.  In  this  work,  in  public 
service,  and  the  care  of  his  large  estate  and  as  a  breeder  of  thorough- 
bred stock  he  has  spent  his  life.  He  was  an  organizer  and  has,  for 
many  years  been  treasurer  of  the  People's  Savings  Bank  of  Rock- 
ville. The  public  positions  which  Mr.  Henry  has  held  have  been 
many  and  important.  For  fifteen  years  he  was  active  trial  justice  at 
Rockville;  in  1883  he  was  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  House  of 
Representatives;  in  1887  was  a  State  Senator;  in  1894  he  was  Mayor 
of  Rockville  and  in  the  same  year  was  elected  a  member  of  Congress. 
He  served  as  a  member  of  the  fifty-fourth  to  the  sixty-second  Con- 
gresses (1895  to  191 3),  and  his  long  term  of  office  justly  gained  for 
him  the  title  of  "Veteran  Congressman."  In  1888,  Mr.  Henry 
was  delegate-at-large  to  the  Republican  National  Convention  at 
Chicago.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution, 
the  American  Jersey  Cattle  Club,  the  Connecticut  Historical  Club  and 
the  fraternal  order  of  Masons.  On  February  11,  i860,  Mr.  Henry 
married  Lucina  E.  Dewey  of  Lebanon. 

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CHARLES  W.  GROSVENOR 
Treasurer,  1897- 1899 
Hon.  Charles  W.  Grosvenor,  of  Pomfret,  State  Treasurer  from 
1897  and  1899,  was  born  in  Pomfret,  May  II,  1839.  He  is  the  eldest 
son  of  John  W.  and  Phebe  G.  (Spaulding)  Grosvenor.  He  and  his, 
brother  Benjamin  have  been  largely  the  means  of  making  Pomfret 
one  of  the  leading  summer  resorts  of  New  England.  Mr.  Grosvenor 
during  the  rebellion  served  as  sergeant  of  Co.  D.,  18th  Conn.  Vol. 
He  is  past  Commander  of  the  A.  G.  Warner  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of 
Putnam.  He  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives  in  1881 
and  1885  and  a  member  of  the  Senate  in  1886.  He  has  been  president 
of  the  Windham  County  Agricultural  Society;  first  vice-president 
of  the  Woodstock  Agricultural  Society  and  president  of  the 
Eighteenth  Connecticut  Volunteers'  Association. 


HENRY  H.  GALLUP 

Treasurer,   1 901 -1905 

Hon.  Henry  Haskell  Gallup,  of  Norwich,  State  Treasurer  from 
1901  to  1905,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Preston,  June  2,  1846.  He  is 
the  son  of  Isaac  and  Maria  Theresa  (Davis)  Gallup.  He  traces  his 
ancestry  through  many  generations  to  John  Gallup,  a  native  of  Dor- 
setshire, England,  who  came  to  this  country  in  1630.  After  receiv- 
ing his  education  in  the  public  and  private  schools,  he  was  engaged 
in  teaching  for  four  winters.  At  the  age  of  twenty-two  he  went  to 
Norwich  and  began  work  as  a  clerk  in  a  store.  On  March  1,  1871,  he 
became  partner  in  a  firm  engaged  in  the  leather  and  finding  trade. 
In  1873,  with  others,  he  formed  the  Norwich  Belt  Manufacturing 
Company,  with  which  he  has  been  associated  ever  since,  and  from 
December,  1892  to  Jan.  1,  1902,  he  was  the  sole  proprietor.  The  com- 
pany was  then  incorporated  and  he  has  since  been  Treasurer,  Presi- 
dent and  now  Chairman  of  Board  of  Directors  and  General  Manager. 
From  1888  to  1909  he  was  a  director  in  the  Thames  National  Bank 
and  has  been  president  of  the  Norwich  Industrial  Building  Company 
since  its  organization.  He  was  also  president  of  the  "  Norwich  Bulle- 
tin "  Company,  is  a  vice-president  of  the  Chelsea  Savings  Bank,  was 
president  of  the  Crescent  Fire  Arms  Company  for  twenty-six  years 
and  is  president  of  the  Smith  Granite  Company,  of  Westerly,  R.  I.. 

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JAMES  F.  WALSH 
Treasurer,   1905- 1907 

Hon.  James  F.  Walsh,  of  Greenwich,  State  Treasurer  from  1905 
to  1907,  was  born  in  Lewisboro,  N.  Y.,  March  15,  1864,  and  is  a 
son  of  James  F.  and  Annie  E.  Walsh.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  re- 
moved to  Greenwich  where  he  entered  the  law  office  of  his  brother, 
Hon.  R.  J.  Walsh,  as  student.  On  January  20,  1888,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  Fairfield  County  Bar,  continuing  to  practice  in  partnership  with 
his  brother  until  January,  1890,  when  he  opened  an  office  of  his  own. 
He  has  met  with  signal  success,  having  built  up  an  unusually  large 
and  lucrative  practice.  He  was  prosecuting  attorney  of  the  Borough 
Court  from  its  organization  in  1888  until  June,  1905,  when  he  re- 
signed upon  being  appointed  by  Governor  Roberts,  Judge  of  the 
Criminal  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Fairfield  County.  Judge  Walsh 
is  a  strong  Republican,  a  highly  respected  member  of  the  Episcopal 
Church,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  Indian  Harbor  Yacht  Club.  He  married 
April  11,  1893,  Emily  Gene  Tweedale,  the  daughter  of  Joseph 
Tweedale  of  Portchester,  N.  Y.  Judge  Walsh  has  been  a  member 
of  the  House  of  Representatives  two  sessions,  1901  and  1919,  being 
Speaker  of  the  House  the  present  session.  In  1907,  as  Senate 
Chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Committee,  he  was  the  leader  of  the 
Senate. 

FREEMAN  F.  PATTEN 
Treasurer,   1907-1911 

Hon.  Freeman  F.  Patten,  of  Stafford  (Stafford  Springs),  State 
Treasurer  from  1907  to  191 1,  was  born  in  that  town,  November  3, 
1856.  After  receiving  a  common  school  education  in  his  home  town 
and  three  years  of  more  advanced  training  at  the  Wesleyan  Academy 
at  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  he,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  became  clerk  in 
the  savings  bank  at  Stafford  Springs.  Two  years  later  he  started  his 
successful  career  as  a  woolen  manufacturer.  In  1900,  Mr.  Patten 
retired  after  an  experience  of  a  quarter  of  a  century  in  the  woolen 
business.  Since  then  he  has  given  his  time  to  the  management  of  his 
extensive  real  estate  holdings  and  to  the  filling  of  various  public 
positions.  He  has  served  as  treasurer  and  later  warden  of  the  Bor- 
ough of  Stafford  Springs;  treasurer  of  the  school  district;  director 
of  the  local  Savings  Bank;  governor  of  the  Country  Club  and  presi- 
dent of  Stafford  Springs  Cemetery  Association.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  a  Methodist  in  creed  and  a  Shriner  in  fraternal  affiliations, 
He  represented  Stafford  in  the  General  Assembly  of  1905. 

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COSTELLO  LIPPITT 

Treasurer,   1911-1913 

Hon.  Costello  Lippitt,  of  Norwich,  State  Treasurer  from  191 1 
to  1 91 3,  was  born  in  East  Killingly,  December  12,  1842,  and  when  ten 
years  old  removed  with  his  parents  to  Norwich.  His  education  was 
acquired  in  the  district  schools  of  his  native  town,  the  public  schools 
and  Free  Academy  of  Norwich  and  Wesleyan  University,  where  he 
was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  A.B.  In  1867,  the  degree  of  M.A. 
was  conferred  upon  him.  Upon  leaving  college  Mr.  Lippitt  entered 
the  Thames  National  Bank,  but  in  1865  accepted  a  clerkship  in  the 
Norwich  Savings  Society,  and  since  1881  has  been  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  this  bank,  which  ranks  as  second  largest  savings  bank  in 
the  State.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank. 
Mr.  Lippitt  is  a  Republican  and  thirty-third  degree  Mason.  He  has 
been  prominent  in  local  politics  and  has  served  his  city  as  Mayor. 

EDWARD  S.  ROBERTS 

Treasurer,   1913-1915 

Hon.  Edward  Spellman  Roberts,  of  North  Canaan,  State  Treas- 
urer from  191 3  to  191 5,  is  a  native  of  Goshen  and  was  born  April  15, 
1842.  He  is  the  son  of  Frederick  and  Hannah  (Spellman)  Roberts 
and  on  September  4,  1867  married  Lois  Jane  Briggs  of  East  Canaan. 
In  July,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  Co.  F.,  2nd  Regiment,  Connecticut 
Volunteers,  and  served  as  1st  Sergeant  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
He  taught  school  twelve  years  and  for  over  twenty  years  has  been 
secretary,  treasurer  and  general  manager  of  the  East  Canaan  Co- 
operative Creamery  Company  and  a  director  of  the  Norfolk  Savings 
Bank.  He  has  represented  his  town  in  the  General  Assembly  two 
sessions,  1875  and  1889,  and  has  been  Chairman  of  the  School 
Board  of  East  Canaan  and  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  many  years. 
He  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason;  Past  Master  of  the  Blue  Lodge;  Past 
Commander  Department  of  Connecticut  G.  A.  R.  and  a  member  of 
the  Patrons  of  Husbandry. 

FREDERICK  S.  CHAMBERLAIN 
Treasurer,   1915-1919 

Hon.  Frederick  Stanley  Chamberlain,  of  New  Britain,  State 
Treasurer  from  191 5  to  1919,  was  born  in  New  Britain,  August  19, 
1872,  the  oldest  child  of  Valentine  B.  and  Anna   (Smith)   Chamber- 

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lain.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  New  Britain  and  at 
the  age  of  sixteen  he  obtained  a  position  with  the  Mechanics  National 
Bank  as  office  boy,  remaining  with  that  bank  until  1907,  when,  being 
assistant  cashier,  he  resigned  to  take  the  position  of  cashier  and  direc- 
tor of  the  New  Britain  National  Bank,  the  position  which  he  now 
holds.  He  has  always  been  a  Republican  and  was  for  several  years 
a  representative  of  the  third  ward  as  councilman  and  alderman, 
resigning  the  office  of  alderman  in  1908  after  having  been  elected 
City  Treasurer.  Mr.  Chamberlain  has  been  elected  to  that  office 
each  election  since,  and  for  several  years  without  any  opposition, 
having  had  the  uncontested  support  of  both  Republicans  and  Demo- 
crats. On  November  18,  1919  he  resigned  the  office  of  City  Treasurer, 
to  become  a  director  of  the  Federal  Reserve  Bank  of  Boston.  Mr. 
Chamberlain  represented  the  city  of  New  Britain  in  the  State  Legis- 
lature in  1909  and  was  House  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Appro- 
priations. He  has  also  been  President  of  the  Board  of  Finance  and 
Taxation  since  its  inception. 


G.   HAROLD   GILPATRIC 
Treasurer,    1919  — 

Hon.  G.  Harold  Gilpatric,  of  Putnam,  the  present  State  Treas- 
urer, was  born  in  Warren,  R.  L,  July  8,  1881.  He  is  the  son  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  W.  Gilpatric  and  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Putnam  when  he  was  but  two  years  old.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Putnam  and  graduated  from  the  Putnam  High 
School  in  the  class  of  1899.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  began  his  suc- 
cessful business  career  by  entering  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Putnam.  In  January,  1908,  he  became  cashier  and  still  holds  that 
important  position.  He  has  been  an  active  member  of  the  Republi- 
can State  Central  Committee  for  nine  years.  On  October  19,  1905, 
Mr.  Gilpatric  married  Miss  Irene  Wheelock,  daughter  of  the  late 
Hon.  Eugene  A.  Wheelock,  formerly  head  of  the  Putnam  Woolen 
Company.  They  have  three  children,  a  daughter  and  two  sons. 
Among  the  varied  business  interests  with  which  Mr.  Gilpatric  is 
identified  aside  from  cashier  of  the  bank,  is  president  of  the  Paris, 
Kentucky,  Water  Company;  director  of  the  Adrian,  Michigan,  Water 
Company;  member  of  the  board  of  water  commissioners  of  the  city 
of  Putnam;  treasurer  of  the  Putnam  Foundry  &  Machine  Corpora- 
tion, and  a  director  of  the  Putnam  Woolen  Company. 

Fraternally  Mr.   Gilpatric  is  a  Mason  and  past  master  of  the 

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Quinebaug  Lodge  of  Putnam,  a  Shriner  and  Knight  Templar;  also 
member  of  the  Odd  Fellows  and  Elks,  and  president  of  the  Putnam 
Country  Club.  Mr.  Gilpatric  was  the  first  county  chairman  of  the 
State  Council  of  Defense  and  was  local  chairman  of  the  Liberty  Loan 
campaigns.  In  November,  19 18  he  was  elected  State  Treasurer  for 
the  term  of  two  years,  1919-1921. 


COMPTROLLERS 

FRANK  D.  SLOAT 

Comptroller,  1883-1885 

Gen.  Frank  D.  Sloat,  of  New  Haven  (now  of  Washington, 
D.  C.)j  State  Comptroller  from  1883  to  1885,  was  born  at  Fishkill, 
N.  Y.,  September  28,  1835.  When  quite  young  he  moved  to  Putnam 
County,  N.  Y.,  where  he  worked  summers  for  his  father  and  others 
at  farm  work  and  attended  the  district  school  winters.  When  he  was 
nearly  seventeen  he  became  a  clerk  in  a  country  store  and  later  was 
a  clerk  in  New  York  City.  He  then  became  a  salesman  for  the  New 
York  Steam  Heating  Company  and  two  years  later,  in  1859,  he  be- 
came manager  of  the  company's  manufactory,  located  at  New  Haven. 
He  was  occupying  that  position  when  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  com-* 
menced.  He  became  an  active  member  of  the  New  Haven  Grays  and 
in  the  early  autumn  of  1862  enlisted  in  a  company  then  recruiting  for 
the  14th  Regiment  C.  V.  Being  too  late  to  enter  that  regiment,  his 
company  was  assigned  to  the  27th  Regiment,  C.  V.  He  was  elected 
Second  Lieutenant  and  later  appointed  First  Lieutenant  and  pro- 
moted to  Captain  of  the  company.  He  was  engaged  in  the  battles  of 
Fredericksburg  and  Chancellorsville,  and  was  among  those  of  his 
company  sent  to  Libby  Prison.  The  term  of  service  of  the  regiment 
having  expired  it  returned  to  New  Haven,  where  General  Sloat 
accepted  the  position  of  bookkeeper  and  confidential  secretary  for 
Mr.  C.  S.  Bushnell.  Between  1867  and  1870,  he  had  charge  of  a 
large  iron  interest  in  Wisconsin.  He  then  became  treasurer  of  the 
Victor  Sewing  Machine  Company  at  Middletown  and  in  1873  was 
also  elected  president,  which  position  he  held  for  several  years. 
General  Sloat  is  a  prominent  Mason  and  member  of  the  G.  A.  R.  He 
is  past-Commander  of  Admiral  Foote  Post,  G.  A.  R.  of  New  Haven. 
He  served  on  Governor  Andrew's  staff  as  Paymaster-General  and 
under  Governor  Bigelow  as  Quartermaster-General.  Gen.  Sloat  for 
many  years  has  held  the  important  position  of  Financial  Clerk  in 
the  Patent  Office  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

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ASAHEL  W.  MITCHELL 

Comptroller,  1905- 1907 

Hon.  Asahel  W.  Mitchell,  of  Woodbury,  State  Comptroller 
from  1905  to  1907,  is  the  son  of  Hon.  Asahel  W.  and  Harriet  (Allen) 
Mitchell  and  was  born  in  Woodbury,  October  16,  1865.  Mr.  Mitchell 
was  in  1883  with  the  Bradstreet  commercial  agency  at  New  Haven, 
after  which  he  was  in  the  office  of  the  American  Ring  Company  at 
Waterbury.  Owing  to  the  failing  health  of  his  father  he  went  home, 
in  October,  1887,  to  take  charge  of  his  affairs  and  has  resided  in 
Woodbury  ever  since.  His  father  died  September  10,  1888.  Mr. 
Mitchell  has  been  superintendent  of  the  Woodbury  Water  Company 
for  many  years.  He  has  held  the  offices  of  town  clerk,  auditor  and 
justice  of  the  peace  for  several  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
House  in  1897  and  the  Senate  in  1899. 

DANIEL   P.   DUNN 

Comptroller,  1913-1915 

Hon.  Daniel  P.  Dunn,  of  Windham  (Willimantic),  State  Comp- 
troller from  1913  to  1915,  was  born  in  that  town  September  14,  1859. 
He  was  married  April  23,  1889,  to  Miss  Julia  A.  Rice,  of  Hartford. 
He  has  been  engaged  in  the  newspaper,  cigar  and  tobacco  business 
since  1884.  He  is  affiliated  closely  with  several  fraternal  organiza- 
tions, amongst  them  being  San  Jose  Council,  No.  14,  K.  of  C. ;  Court 
Windham,  No.  97,  F.  of  A ;  Willimantic  Conclave,  No.  751,  I.  O.  H.  ; 
Division  No.  1,  A.  O.  H.  and  Norwich  Lodge,  No.  430,  B.  P.  of  Elks. 
He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  St.  Joseph's  Hospital ;  also  an 
active  member  of  the  Putnam  Phalanx,  of  Hartford.  He  has  held 
several  political  offices,  including  Mayor  and  Registrar  of  Voters. 
He  is  a  Democrat  and  was  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly  four 
sessions,  1903,  1907,  1909  and  191 1. 

MORRIS  C.  WEBSTER 
Comptroller,  191 5  — 
Hon.  Morris  Catlin  Webster,'  of  Harwinton,  State  Comptroller 
since  191 5,  was  born  at  Harwinton,  September  28,  1848,  and  is  a 
lineal  descendant  of  John  Webster,  who  was  one  of  Connecticut's 
Colonial  Governors,  serving  two  terms,  1656-57;  three  of  his  ances- 
tors were  Revolutionary  soldiers  and  one  earned  distinction  by  carry- 
ing General  Arnold,  when  wounded,  from  the  battlefield  at  Saratoga. 

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Through  his  mother  he  is  connected  with  the  Catlin  family,  so  many 
of  whom  have  held  prominent  and  responsible  positions  in  the  State. 
Mr.  Webster  was  educated  at  Winchester  Institute,  then  a  flourishing 
military  academy  in  charge  of  Col.  Ira  W.  Pettibone,  and  began  busi- 
ness in  the  employ  of  Hart,  Merriam  &  Co.,  of  Hartford,  where  he 
remained  six  years.  From  Hartford  he  went  to  Milwaukee,  thence  to 
New  York,  then  engaged  for  himself  in  business  at  Terry ville,  and  in 
1878  accepted  the  position  of  secretary  and  superintendent  of  The 
Malleable  Iron  Works  in  New  Britain,  which  he  held  until  May 
16,  1902.  In  New  Britain  Mr.  Webster  began  his  political  career. 
He  served  three  years  in  the  Common  Council;  fifteen  years  on  the 
School  Board;  was  Representative  in  the  Legislature  of  1897,  and 
has  served  two  years  as  Mayor.  He  was  Building  and  Loan  Com- 
missioner from  March,  1891  to  1907  and  a  member  of  the  General 
Assembly,  from  Harwinton,  two  consecutive  sessions,  191 1  and  1913, 
being  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives  the  latter  session. 

ATTORNEYS-GENERAL 

CHARLES  PHELPS 
Attorney-General,  1899- 1903 
(See  Secretaries  for  biographical  sketch.) 

WILLIAM  A.  KING 

Attorney-General,  1903- 1907 

Hon.  William  Albert  King,  of  Windham  (Willimantic),  Attor- 
ney-General from  1903  to  1907,  was  born  in  Greenfield,  Mass.,  July 
22,  1855.  He  was  educated  at  Monson  Academy  and  Amherst 
College,  graduating  in  the  class  of  1878.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
Bar  in  1880,  locating  at  Stafford  Springs.  Since  1889,  he  has  been 
successfully  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  at  Willimantic.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  General  Assembly  from  Stafford  in  1882  and  from 
Windham  in  1899,  1901  and  1919.  The  last  two  sessions  he  was 
Republican  leader  of  the  House,  being  chairman  of  the  Judiciary 
Committee.  In  1901  he  was  a  member  of  the  Commission  to  revise 
the  Statutes. 

MARCUS  H.  HOLCOMB 
Attorney-General,   1 907-1910 
(See  Governors  for  biographical  sketch). 

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JOHN  H.  LIGHT 

Attorney-General,   1910-1915 

Hon.  John  H.  Light,  of  Norwalk,  Attorney-General,  was 
appointed  September  15,  1910,  by  Governor  Weeks  to  fill  the  un- 
expired term  of  Marcus  H.  Holcomb  and  in  November,  1910,  was 
elected  for  the  full  term  of  four  years  commencing  on  the  4th  day 
of  January,  191 1.  He  was  born  in  Carmel,  Putnam  County,  New 
York,  on  March  27,  1855,  and  graduated  from  the  Chamberlain  In- 
stitute, at  Randolph,  N.  Y.,  with  honors,  in  1880.  In  1883  he  was 
admitted  to  the  Fairfield  County  Bar  and  has  since  successfully  con- 
tinued in  the  practice  of  law  in  South  Norwalk.  In  1884,  he  was 
appointed  attorney  for  the  city,  and  filled  that  office  continuously, 
under  both  Democratic  and  Republican  administrations  for  twenty- 
four  years.  In  February,  1896,  Mr.  Light  was  appointed  Prosecuting 
Attorney  of  the  Criminal  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  Fairfield 
County,  and  held  that  office  until  November  5,  1900,  when  by 
Governor  George  E.  Lounsbury,  he  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  same 
Court,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  resignation  of  Judge  R.  Jay 
Walsh,  of  Greenwich.  By  the  next  General  Assembly,  Mr.  Light 
was  appointed  Judge  of  said  Court  for  the  unexpired  portion  of 
Judge  Walsh's  term,  and  was  also  appointed  for  the  full  term  of 
four  years,  beginning  July  1,  1901.  Judge  Light  was  a  member  of 
the  General  Assembly  in  1899  and  1901,  the  latter  session  being 
Speaker  of  the  House.  He  has  held  several  other  offices  including: 
member  of  the  Committee  of  the  South  Norwalk  School  District; 
member  School  Board  of  the  Town  of  Norwalk ;  acting  school  visitor ; 
president  and  director  of  the  Public  Library;  director  of  the  City 
National  Bank  of  South  Norwalk;  one  of  the  managers  and  Board 
of  Directors  of  the  South  Norwalk  Savings  Bank  and  treasurer  of 
Fairfield  County. 


GEORGE  E.  HINMAN 

Attorney-General,   191 5- 19 19 

Hon.  George  E.  Hinman,  of  Windham  (Willimantic),  Attorney- 
General  from  191 5  to  1919,  was  assistant  clerk  of  the  House  of 
Representatives  in  1899,  clerk  of  the  House  in  1901,  assistant  clerk 
of  the  Constitutional  Convention  in  1902,  clerk  of  the  Senate,  1903, 
clerk  of  bills,  1905,  1907,  and  191 1,  engrossing  clerk  in  1909.  In 
January,   1919,  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Holcomb  a  judge  of 

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the  superior  court  for  the  term  of  eight  years  from  August  23,  1919. 
He  was  born  in  Alford,  Mass.,  May  7,  1870,  graduated  from  the 
Great  Barrington  (Mass.),  high  school  in  1888,  engaged  in  news- 
paper work,  coming  to  Willimantic  in  1901,  and  was  for  three  years 
editor  of  the  Willimantic  Journal.  Resigning  this  position  in  1895, 
he  studied  law  in  the  office  of  former  Attorney-General  Wm.  A. 
King  and  at  the  Yale  Law  School,  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  in  March, 
1899,  and  has  since  practiced  successfully  in  Willimantic.  In  addition 
to  the  above-mentioned  state  offices,  he  was  county  health  officer  from 
1903  to  1914,  secretary  of  the  Republican  State  Central  Committee 
1902  to  1914,  and  has  held  several  town  and  city  offices.  He  married, 
September  26,  1899,  Nettie  P.  Williams  of  Willimantic.  They  have 
two  children,  Russell  W.,  born  January  30,  1907,  and  Virginia  G., 
born  August  23,  1909. 


FRANK  E.  HEALY 

Attorney-General,    1919  — 

Hon.  Frank  E.  Healy,  of  Windsor  Locks,  the  present  Attorney- 
General  of  the  State,  was  born  in  Windsor  Locks,  November  8, 
1869.  He  was  graduated  with  honors  from  the  Law  School  at  Yale, 
in  the  class  of  '93,  and  during  his  course  there  took  the  Kent  Club 
prize  for  oratory.  In  June,  1893,  he  was  admitted  to  the  Bar,  and 
has  since  practiced  law  in  Hartford.  He  was  Assistant  Clerk  of 
the  House  of  Representatives  of  '97,  Clerk  in  '99,  Clerk  of  the  Senate 
in  1901,  Clerk  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  in  1902,  Clerk  of 
Bills  in  1903,  and  Engrossing  Clerk  in  1905.  He  has  had  the  honor 
of  being  a  leading  member  of  the  General  Assembly  three  consecu7 
tive  sessions.  In  the  session  of  1913,  he  was  the  Republican  Leader 
of  the  House,  being  chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Committee,  and  in  the 
sessions  of  191 5  and  1917,  he  was  Speaker  of  the  House.  He  was 
Tax  Commissioner  from  1905  to  1907;  has  been  an  active  member 
of  the  Republican  State  Central  Committee  for  many  years  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Commission  to  revise  the  Statutes  in  191 5.  In 
November,  1918,  he  was  elected  Attorney-General  for  a  term  of  four 
years,  beginning  in  January,  1919. 


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Oldest  Living  Member  of  the  General  Assembly 
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OLDEST  LIVING  LEGISLATORS. 


The  two  silver  loving  cups,  presented  by  Speaker  James  F.  Walsh, 
in  behalf  of  the  State,  to  Chester  R.  Woodford  of  Avon  and  Colonel 
Albert  L.  Hodge  of  Roxbury,  in  the  House  of  Representatives  on  May 
7th  were,  after  they  had  been  suitably  engraved,  personally  presented 
to  them  early  in  June.  Senator  Albert  H.  House,  chairman  of  the 
Centennial  Committee  motored  to  Avon  and  presented  Mr.  Woodford 
his  loving  cup  in  the  following  words : 

Mr.  Woodford,  it  is  with  great  pleasure  and  honor  that  I  pre- 
sent to  you,  as  chairman  of  the  1919  Centennial  Committee  of  the  state 
of  Connecticut,  a  loving  cup.  This  cup  is  given  to  you  as  a  token  of 
friendship  and  esteem  as  being  the  oldest  living  member  who  has  rep- 
resented our  state  in  the  Legislature,  and  we  congratulate  you  and 
your  family  for  the  many  years  of  service  that  you  have  been  able  to 
render  your  town  and  state.  We  trust  that  this  loving  cup  will  be 
handed  down  by  you  to  the  future  generations  so  that  at  the  two 
hundredth  anniversary  in  the  year  2019  some  member  of  your  family 
will  be  able  to  attend  and  carry  with  them  a  message  informing  the 
assembly  that  this  cup  is  now  held  by  the  family  as  a  great  treasure,  it 
being  presented  to  you  by  the  State  in  1919.  Once  more  I  can  assure 
you  that  I  deem  it  a  great  honor  to  be  privileged  to  converse  with  you, 
the  oldest  legislator  of  this  good  old  state,  and  I  trust  that  in  the  future 
you  may  enjoy  all  the  pleasures  of  living  as  you  have  in  the  past. 

Secretary  Taylor  of  the  Committee  supplemented  Senator  House's 
remarks  with  a  few  appropriate  words.  Mr.  Woodford,  his  son  and 
two  daughters,  who  were  present,  extended  their  heartfelt  thanks  to 
the  state  and  the  committee  for  the  loving  cup  which  bears  the  follow- 
ing inscription : 

Presented  to 

Chester  R.  Woodford,  Esq., 

Avon, 

Oldest  Living  Member. 

Born  October  26,  1814. 

House  of  Representatives, 

1858. 

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The  loving  cup  for  Colonel  Hodge  was  presented  to  him  by  Rev. 
James  O.  Emerson,  the  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives  from 
Roxbury.     His  presentation  speech  was  as  follows: 

Colonel  Hodge:  One  hundred  and  one  years  ago  the  people  of 
Connecticut  registered  the  changes  in  their  sentiments  and  customs  by 
the  adoption  of  a  new  constitution.  The  following  year  the  General 
Assembly  of  the  State  met  for  the  first  time  under  its  new  constitution. 
It  seemed  desirable  to  the  members  of  the  General  Assembly  in  its 
January  session  of  1919  that  some  suitable  recognition  should  be  made 
of  this  one-hundredth  anniversary  of  the  beginning  of  the  work  of 
this  body  under  the  present  order.  A  program  was  accordingly  ar- 
ranged for  the  7th  day  of  May.  It  consisted  in  a  reunion  of  those  who 
had  served  the  State  either  in  the  General  Assembly  or  other  offices 
at  which  speeches  were  made  by  the  Governor  and  other  State  officials, 
also  by  other  distinguished  men  who  reviewed  the  history  of  the 
State's  constitutional  life  and  seats  of  government,  and  other  appro- 
priate exercises  were  enjoyed.  On  that  occasion  you  were  present.  It 
was  noted  at  that  time,  that  your  life,  lacking  some  three  years,  had 
run  parallel  with  that  of  the  General  Assembly  as  at  present  consti- 
tuted. It  was  also  noted  that  your  first  term  as  a  member  of  the 
General  Assembly  antedates  that  of  any  other  member  now  living. 
The  committee  in  charge  felt  that  such  a  circumstance  deserved  some 
consideration  at  their  hands.  They  have  therefore  procured  this 
beautiful  loving  cup,  which  they  have  had  suitably  engraved,  and  which 
they  have  sent  to  me,  as  a  member  of  the  present  General  Assembly 
from  your  town,  with  the  request  that,  on  behalf  of  the  State,  I  present 
it  to  you,  as  a  token  of  the  esteem  and  honor  in  which  you  are  held. 
With  the  congratulations  and  best  wishes  therefore  of  the  committee, 
and  of  your  fellow  citizens  of  the  State,  I  with  the  greatest  pleasure, 
perform  the  task  assigned  me,  and  present  you,  on  behalf  of  the  State, 
this  loving  cup. 

Colonel  Hodge  responded  as  follows: 

Representative  Emerson:  I  wish  to  thank  you  and  through  you, 
the  Legislature  of  1919,  for  the  beautiful  loving  cup  you  have  just 
handed  me.  Growing  old  may  have  its  drawbacks,  but  it  certainly  has 
its  happy  moments.  I  have  lived  a  long  and  happy  life,  and  some  of  its 
most  pleasant  moments  have  been  spent  in  the  Legislature  of  our  good 
old  State. 

This  cup,  this  gift,  this  last  token  of  remembrance  seems  to  fill  out 
—  fill-me-up,  and  all  I  can  say  more,  is  I  thank  you. 

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The  inscription  on  the  cup  for  Colonel  Hodge  is : 

Presented  to 

Albert  L.  Hodge,  Esq., 

Roxbury, 

Oldest  Living  Member  in   Point  of 

Service. 

Born  October  15,  1822. 

House  of  Representatives 

1 853- 1 864- 1 865  and  1875. 

On  the  reverse  side  of  both  the  cups  is  the  following  inscriptions : 

State  of  Connecticut. 

The  One  Hundred  Anniversary 

of  the 

First  Meeting  of  the  General  Assembly 

Under  the  Present  Constitution, 

Capitol,   Hartford. 

Wednesday,  May  7,  19 19. 

The  Secretary  also  presented  to  Mr.  Woodward  a  penny  of  1814 
and  one  of  1918,  and  to  Colonel  Hodge  a  penny  of  1822  and  one  of 
1918. 


CHESTER  R.  WOODFORD. 

Oldest  Living  Member. 

Hon.  Chester  Randolph  Woodford,  of  Avon,  the  oldest  living 
member  of  the  General  Assembly,  was  born  October  26,  18 14,  in  that 
part  of  the  town  of  Farmington  called  Northington,  now  known  as 
Avon.  He  is  the  seventh  generation  in  descent  from  Thomas  Wood- 
ford, a  native  of  England,  who  came  to  America  at  an  early  age, 
locating  first  at  Cambridge,  Mass.  In  1633,  Thomas  Woodford  came 
to  Hartford  with  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker's  company  and  during  his  resi- 
dence there  he  took  an  active  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  colony,  serving 
as  town  crier  and  fence  viewer  among  other  offices.  Joseph  Wood- 
ford, the  next  in  line  of  descent  was  born  in  Hartford,  and  in  1666 
removed  to  Farmington,  where  he  became  an  extensive  land  owner. 
Joseph  Woodford,  2nd,  was  born  in  1677  in  Farmington  and  also 
owned  a  large  tract  of  land,  and  was  engaged  in  farming.  The  Wood- 
ford's owned  nearly  all  the  land  in  the  "  Society  of  Northington  " — 
the  part  of  the  town  where  they  located.  Captain  William  Woodford, 
our  subject's  great-grandfather,  was  born  in  Northington,  and  became 
a  leading  citizen  and  prominent  agriculturist  of  Farmington.  During 
the  Revolutionary  War,  he  was  captain  of  a  company.  Captain 
Dudley  Woodford,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  a  large  land 
owner,  and  spent  his  entire  life  on  the  old  homestead.     Like  his  father, 

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he  was  active  during  the  Revolution  and  also  was  captain  of  a  company. 
Chester  Woodford,  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  1782  on  the  old 
homestead  and  in  181 1,  he  married  Stella  Bishop,  who  died  in  1887, 
at  the  ripe  old  age  of  ninety-seven.  They  had  five  children  of  which 
Chester  Randolph  was  the  second.  Mr.  Woodford  spent  several  years 
traveling  as  collector  and  salesman  for  a  clock  company  and  in  1838 
went  to  Illinois,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  clock  business  and  fur 
trade  with  his  uncle,  Joseph  Bishop.  In  1841  he  returned  to  his 
native  town,  where  he  bought  a  hundred-acre  tract  known  as  the 
Webster  farm;  here  he  has  since  been  engaged  in  the  growing  of 
tobacco  and  dairying.  He  was  the  first  tobacco  grower  in  the  town  of 
Avon,  and  dealt  extensively  in  tobacco  for  several  years  as  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Wheeler  &  Co.  He  built  his  present  house  in  1855. 
He  was  president  of  the  Avon  Creamery  for  several  years.  Mr. 
Woodford  was  the  member  of  the  General  Assembly  from  Avon  in 
1858,  and  has  for  many  years  served  his  town  as  selectman,  tax 
collector,  assessor  and  justice  of  the  peace.  For  eighty-five  years  he 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church,  with  which  his 
family  had  been  identified  from  an  early  period.  He  cast  his  first  vote 
for  Martin  Van  Buren,  and  since  the  formation  of  the  Republican 
party  he  has  been  a  staunch  supporter.  In  1840  Mr.  Woodford  was 
married,  in  Avon,  to  Harriet,  daughter  of  Ashbel  and  Esther  (Bissell) 
Webster,  who  died  in  1898.  Six  children  were  born  to  their  union: 
Mary  Estella,  Anna  Maria,  Frederick  Gustavus,  Prescott  Hamilton, 
Harriet  Elizabeth  and  Carrie  Annette.  Prescott  H.,  who  was  a  member 
of  the  Legislature  in  1913,  now  operates  the  home  farm  for  his 
father. 


ALBERT  L.   HODGE. 

Oldest  Living  Member  in  Point  of  Service. 

Hon.  Albert  Lafayette  Hodge,  of  Roxbury,  oldest  member  of 
the  General  Assembly  in  point  of  service,  was  born  in  Roxbury, 
October  15,  1822.  He  is  the  son  of  Chauncey  and  Ruth  Ann  (Bunnell) 
Hodge.  His  great-grandfather,  Daniel  Hodge,  was  killed,  near  Stam- 
ford, during  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  grandfather,  Philo  Hodge, 
was  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  and  served  throughout  the  war. 
His  war  record  shows  three  enlistments.  Albert  L.  Hodge,  for  fifteen 
years,  worked  on  the  farm  in  summer  and  taught  school  in  winter. 
On  May  16,  1845,  ne  was  chosen  Colonel  of  the  Twelfth  Regiment 
Infantry,  which  position  he  held  until  the  law  was  changed.     In  July, 

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1 866,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  American  Steel  Company,  and 
later  was  promoted  to  superintendent.  In  1870,  in  connection  with 
J.  B.  Leavenworth,  he  laid  the  foundation  of  his  present  successful 
coal,  lumber  and  hardware  business.  The  business  has  for  several 
years  been  carried  on  under  the  firm  name  of  A.  L.  Hodge  &  Son. 
Mr.  Hodge  has  held  several  town  offices  including:  selectman, 
constable,  grand  juror,  justice  of  the  peace,  member  of  the  Board  of 
Relief  and  postmaster.  He  has  had  the  honor  to  represent  his  town 
in  the  Legislature  four  sessions,  1853,  1864,  1865  and  1875.  He  is  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  being  past  master  of 
Rising  Star  Lodge,  No.  2J,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  On  October  25,  1846,  he 
married  Jane  E.  Wells  of  New  Milford.  Two  children  have  been 
born  to  them :  Elizabeth  J.  and  Charles  W.,  who  was  a  member  of  the 
General  Assembly  in  1886;  is  vice-president  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  New  Milford,  and  now  has  charge  of  the  business  of  A.  L. 
Hodge  &  Son. 


(Mr.  Hodge  died  March  17,  1920.) 


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CONNECTICUT  STATE  GOVERNMENT. 

1919. 


EXECUTIVE  CHAMBER. 
Second  floor,  Capitol. 
Marcus  H.  Holcomb,  Governor,  P.  O.  address,  Southington. 
John  Buckley,  Executive  Secretary. 
Frank  D.  Rood,  Chief  Clerk. 

Governor's  Staff. 
Brigadier-General  George  M.  Cole,  The  Adjutant-General. 
Colonel  Frank  J.  Regan,  Quartermaster-General. 
Colonel  Phineas  H.  Ingalls,  Surgeon-General. 
Colonel  William  C.  Cheney,  Commissary-General. 
Colonel  Alton  Farrel,  Paymaster-General. 
Colonel  Arnon  A.  Ailing,  Judge-Advocate-General. 
Rear  Admiral  William  S.  Cowles,  Naval  Aide. 
Major  Samuel  Russell,  Jr.,  Aide-de-Camp. 
Major  John  N.  Brooks,  Aide-de-Camp. 
Major  John  P.  Elton,  Aide-de-Camp. 
Colonel  Edward  Schulze,  Assistant  Adjutant-General. 
Colonel  Charles  E.  Smith,  Assistant  Quartermaster-General. 


SECRETARY'S  OFFICE. 
Second  floor,  Capitol. 
Frederick  L.  Perry,  Secretary.  P.  O.  address,  New  Haven. 
Richard  J.  Dwyer,  Deputy  Secretary. 
Elmer  H.  Lounsbury,  Chief  Clerk. 
James  A.  Morcaldi,  First  Assistant  Clerk. 


TREASURER'S  OFFICE. 
First  floor,  Capitol. 
G.  Harold  Gilpatric,  Treasurer,  P.  O.  address,  Putnam. 
Charles  F.  Sumner,  Deputy  Treasurer. 
Lewis  W.  Phelps,  Chief  Clerk. 
Thomas  H.  Judd,  Assistant  Clerk. 

BUREAU   OF   SCHOOL  FUND. 

First  floor,  Capitol. 
Charles  W.  Skinner,  Clerk. 
William  H.  Pond,  Clerk. 

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COMPTROLLER'S   OFFICE. 
First  floor,  Capitol. 
Morris  C.  Webster,  Comptroller,  P.  O.  address,  Torrington  R.  D. 
F.  Clarence  Bissell,  Deputy  Comptroller. 
John  H.  Belden,  Chief  Clerk. 
John  L.  Wilson,  Superintendent  of  the  Capitol. 
Frank  W.  Congdon,  Assistant  Superintendent. 
John  D.  Kelly,  Master  Mechanic. 
Matthew  K.  Cooney,  Guide. 


ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S  OFFICE. 
Second  floor,  Capitol. 
Frank  E.  Healy,  Attorney-General,  P.  O.  address,  Windsor  Locks. 


STATE  LIBRARY  COMMITTEE. 
The  Governor,  Marcus  H.  Holcomb   (ex-oflicio). 
The  Secretary,  Frederick  L.  Perry,  and  Hon.  William  Hamersley. 


STATE  LIBRARY. 
State  Library  and  Supreme  Court  Building. 
George  S.  Godard,  librarian  and  superintendent;  Fanny  I.  Yale,  librarian's 
assistant ;  Effie  M.  Prickett,  chief  division  archives ;  Helen  Coffin,  chief  divi- 
sion legislative  reference  ;  Aldina  A.  L.  Galarneau,  supervisor  probate  files  ;  Louise 
M.  Bailey,  chief  cataloguer ;  M.  V.  B.  Barker,  supervisor  periodicals ;  Christian 
N.  Due,  supervisor  of  reading  room ;  Kathryn  C.  Belden,  supervisor  Memorial 
Hall ;  Lucius  B.  Barbour,  examiner  of  public  records ;  Florence  H.  Herman, 
supervisor  receiving  room ;  Christian  N.  Due,  photostat  operator ;  Charles  J. 
Fancher,  assistant  superintendent  of  building. 


DEPARTMENT  OF  WAR  RECORDS. 

CONNECTICUT   STATE   MILITARY   CENSUS. 

George  S.  Godard,  director. 

MILITARY  DEPARTMENT. 


MILITARY  EMERGENCY  BOARD. 
The  Governor   {ex  officio). 
Lucien  F.  Burpee,  Benedict  M.  Holden,  Hartford;  J.  Moss  Ives,  Danbury; 
George  M.  Cole,  Hartford. 

Adjutant  General's  Office. 
Brigadier-General  George  M.  Cole,  Adjutant-General, 
Colonel  Edward  Schulze,  Assistant  Adjutant-General, 
Lorenzo  D.  Converse,  Clerk. 

Quartermaster's  Department. 
Colonel  Charles  E.  Smith,  Assistant  Quartermaster-General, 
George  E.  Cole,  Clerk. 

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UNITED  STATES  SENATORS  AND  REPRESENTA- 
TIVES FROM  CONNECTICUT  SINCE  1819,  AND 
THEIR  TERM  OF  SERVICE. 


Senators. 

[The  names  of  those  who  are  deceased  are  marked  *.] 
Name.  Residence. 

*  Samuel  W.  Dana Middletown, 

*  James  Lanman   Norwich, 

*  Elijah  Boardman  New  Milford, 

*  Henry  W.  Edwards New  Haven, 

*  Calvin  Willey  Tolland, 

*  Samuel  A.  Foot Cheshire, 

*  Gideon   Tomlinson    Fairfield, 

*  Nathan  Smith New  Haven, 

*  John  M.  Niles Hartford, 

*  Perry  Smith    New  Milford, 

*  Thaddeus  Betts   Norwalk, 

*  Jabez  W.   Huntington    Norwich, 

*  Roger  S.  Baldwin New  Haven, 

*  Truman  Smith   Litchfield, 

*  Isaac  Toucey Hartford, 

*  Francis  Gillett   Hartford, 

*  LaFayette  S.  Foster  Norwich, 

*  James   Dixon Hartford, 

*  Orris  S.  Ferry  Norwalk, 

*  William  A.  Buckingham  Norwich, 

*  James  E.  English New  Haven, 

*  William  W.  Eaton   Hartford, 

*  William  H.  Barnum  Salisbury, 

*  Orville  H.  Piatt Meriden, 

*  Joseph  R.  Hawley Hartford, 

Morgan  G.  Bulkeley Hartford, 

Frank  B.  Brandegee New  London, 

George  P.  McLean  Simsbury, 


Years  of 
service. 

l8lO-2I 
1819-25 
1821-23 
1823-27 
1825-31 
1827-33 
1831-37 
1833-35 
1835-39,  43-49 
1837-43 
1839-40 
1840-47 
1847-51 
1849-54 
1852-57 
1854-55 
1855-67 
1857-69 
1867-75 
1869-75 
1875-76 

1875-81 
1876-79 

1879-1905 

1881-1905 

1905-1911 

1905- 

1911- 


Representatives. 

[In  instances  where  no   districts   are  given   the  elections  were  at   large.] 
[The  names  of  those  who  are  deceased  are  marked  *.] 

Dis-  Con-  Years  of 

Name.  Residence.  trict.        gress.  service. 

*  Arnold,  Samuel   Haddam,          s  2  35  i857~59 

*  Baldwin,   John    Windham,  19, 20  1825-29 

♦Barber,   Noyes    Groton,  17-24  1821-35 

*  Barnum,  William  H Salisbury,  4  40-45  1867-77 

*  Belcher,  Nathan New  London,  3  33  i853~55 

*  Bishop,  Wm.  D Bridgeport,  4  35  1857-59 

*  Boardman,  Wm.  W. New  Haven,  2  27  1841-43 

♦Booth,   Walter Meriden,  2  31  1849-51 

*  Brandegee,  Augustus  New  London,       3        38-39        1863-67 

Brandegee,  Frank  B.  a  New  London,      3        57~59        1902-05 

a  Elected  to  fill  vacancy  to  March  4,  1903,  and  for  the  58th  and  59th  sessions  of  Con- 
gress. Resigned  in  1905  to  become  U.  S.  Senator,  to  fill  vacancy  caused  by  death  of  Senator 
Orville  H.  Piatt. 

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Dis- 

Name.                                                                   Residence.  trict. 

*  Brock  way,  John  H Ellington,  6 

*  Buck,  John  R Hartford,  i 

*  Burnham,  A.  A Windham,  3 

*  Burrows,    Daniel    Groton, 

*  Butler,  Thomas  B Norwalk,  4 

*  Catlin,  George  S Windham,  3 

*  Chapman,  Charles  Hartford,  1 

*  Clark,  Ezra,  Jr Hartford,  1 

*  Cleveland,  Chauncey  F Hampton,  3 

*  Dean,  Sidney Thompson,  3 

*  DeForest,  Robert  E Bridgeport,  4 

*  Deming,  Henry  C Hartford,  1 

*  Dixon,  James   Hartford,  1 

Donovan,  Jeremiah  Norwalk,  4 

*  Eaton,  William  W Hartford,  1 

*  Edwards,  Henrv  W New  Haven, 

*  Ellsworth,  William  W.  a  Hartford, 

♦English,    James    E New  Haven,  2 

*  Ferry,  O.  S Norwalk,  4 

*  Foot,  Samuel  A Cheshire, 

Freeman,  Richard  P New  London,  2 

*  French,  Carlos    Seymour,  2 

Glynn,  James  P Winsted,  5 

*  Granger,  Miles  T North  Canaan,    4 

*  Haley,  Elisha   : Groton,  3 

*  Hawley,  Joseph  R Hartford,  1 

Henry,  E.   Stevens    Vernon,  I 

Higgins,  Edwin  W.  b   Norwich,  3 

*  Hill,  Ebenezer  J.  c  Norwalk,  ^ 

♦Holt,  Orrin   Wellington,  6 

*  Hotchkiss,  Julius  Middletown,  2 

*  Hubbard,  John  H Litchfield,     '  4 

*  Hubbard,  Richard  D Hartford,  1 

♦Hubbard,  Samuel  D Middletown,  2 

*  Huntington,  Jabez  W Litchfield, 

*  Ingersoll,  Colin  M New  Haven,  2 

*  Ingersoll,  Ralph  I New  Haven, 

*  Ingham,  Samuel Saybrook,  2 

*  Jackson,.  Ebenezer,  Jr.  d  Middletown, 

*  Judson,  Andrew  T Canterbury, 

*  Kellogg,  Stephen  W Waterbury,  2 

*  Kennedy,  William  Naugatuck,  5 

*  Landers,  George  M New  Britain,  1 

*  Lilley,  George  L Waterbury, 

Lonergan,  Augustine   Hartford,  1 

♦Loomis,   Dwight,    Hartford,  1 

Mahan,  Bryan  F New  London,  2 

*  Merwin,   Orange    New  Milford, 

Merritt,  Schuyler  d   Stamford,  4 

*  Miles,  Frederick Salisbury,  4 

*  Miner,  Phineas  a 

a    Resigned  in  1833.      b  Elected  to  fill  vacancy  to  March  4, 

of  Rep.   Frank  B.  Brandegee  to  U.    S.   Senate,     c  Died  during  term, 
d  Elected  to  fill  vacancy,     e  Died  during  term, 
f  District  changed  from  Second  to  Third. 

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Con- 
gress. 

26,27 

47,49 

36,37 

17 

31 

28 

32 

34,35 

3i,32 

34,35 

52,53 

38,39 

29,30 

63 

48 

16,  17 

21-24 

37,38 

36       ' 

16, 18  s 
23 1 
64,65 
50 

64,65 
50 
24,25 

63, 65, 

54-62 

59-62 

54-62 

64,65 

25 

40 

38,39 

40 

29,30 

21-24 

32,33 

19-23 

24,25 

24 

24 

41-44 

63 

44,45 
58^60 
63,  65, 

66 
36,37 
63 

19,20 
65,66 
46,47 

5i 
24 


23 


Years  of 
service. 

839-43 
881-83, 
885-87 
859-63 
821-23 

849-51 

843-45 

851-53 

855-59 

849-53 

855-59 

891-95 

863-67 

845-49 

9I3-I9I5 

883-85 

819-23 

829-33      • 

861-65 

859-61 

9-21, 

25,  33-35 

915- 

887-89 

915- 
887-89 

835-39 
873-75, 
879-81 

895-1913 
905-1913 

895-1913 
915-1917 

837-39 

867-69 

863-67 

867-69 

845-49 

829-35 

851-55 

825-33 

835-39 

834-35 

835-37 

869-75 

9I3-I5 

875-79 

903-09 

9T3-I5 

917 

859-63 

9I3-I5 

825-29 

917- 

879-83 
889-91 

834-35 


1907,  caused  by  election 


Dis-  Cotv 

Name.                                                                   Residence.  trict.  gress. 

Mitchell,  Charles  L : .  New  Haven,  2  48,  49 

Oakey,  P.  Davis Hartford,  1  64 

Osborne,  Thomas  B Fairfield,  4  26, 27 

Phelps,  Elisha Simsbury,  l6'^      j 

Phelps,  James  Essex,  2  44-48 

Phelps,    Launcelot    Colebrook,  5  24-25 

Pigott,  James  P New  Haven,  2  53 

Plant,  David   Stratford,  20 

Pratt,  James  T Rocky  Hill,  1  33 

Reilly,  Thomas  L Meriden,  f  3  62-63 

Rockwell,  John  A Norwich,  3  29,  30 

Russ,  John  Hartford,  16,  17 

Russell,  Charles  A.  e  Killingly,  3  50-57 

Seymour,  Edward  W Bridgeport,  4  48,  49 

Seymour,  Origen  S Litchfield,  4  32, 33 

Seymour,  Thomas  H Hartford,  1  28 

Simonds,  William  E Canton,  1  51 

Simons,  Samuel   Colebrook,  4  28 

Smith,   Truman    Litchfield,  5  jjj     j 

4  29, 30      ( 

Sperry,    Lewis    South  Windsor,  1  52,  53 

Sperry,  Nehemiah  D New,  Haven,  2  54-61 

Starkweather,  Henry  H New  London,  3  40-45 

Sterling,  Ansel  Sharon,  17, 18 

Stevens,  James  Stamford,  16 

Stewart,  John  Chatham,  2  28 

Stoddard,   Ebenezer    Woodstock,  17,  18 

Storrs,  William  L Middletown,  2  |£  22     { 

Strong,  Julius  L Hartford,  1  41, 42 

Tilson,  John  Q New  Haven    (at  large),  61-62, 

3  64-65, 

Tomlinson,  Gideon    Fairfield,  16-20 

Toucey,  Isaac  Hartford,  1  24,25 

Trumbull,  Joseph  a   Hartford,  1  26, 27 

Tweedy,  Samuel Danbury,  23 

Vance,  Robert  J New  Britain,  1  50 

Wait,  John  T Norwich,  3  45-50 

Waldo,  Loren  P Tolland,  1  31 

Warner,  Levi    Norwalk,  4  45 

Warner,  Samuel  L Middletown,  2  39 

Welch,  William  W Norfolk,  4  34 

Whitman,  Lemuel  Farmington,  18 

Whittlesey,  Thomas  T Danbury,  4  25 

Wildman,   Zalmon   b    Danbury,  24 

Willcox,  Washington  F Deep  River,  2  51,52 

Williams,  Thomas  W New  London,  3  26,27 

Woodruff,  G.  C Litchfield,  4  37 

Woodruff,  John   New  Haven,  2  34,  36     j 

Young,  Ebenezer  Killingly,  21-24 

a  Elected    for    unexpired    portion    of    term    in     1834. 
b  Died  at  Washington,    Dec.    10,   1835. 


Years  of 
service. 

883-87 
915-17 
839-43 
819-21 
825-29 
875-83 
835-39 
893-95 
827-29 

853-55 

911-15 

842-49 

819-23 

887-1902 

883^87 

851-55 

843-45 

889-9I 

843-45 
839-43 
845-49 
891-95 
895-19H 

867-77 
821-25 
819-21 

843-45 
821-25 

829-33 

839-4 I 

869-73 

9OO-13 

015- 

819-27 

835-39 

839-43 

833-35 

887-89 

877-87 

849-51 

877-79 

865-67 

855-57 
823-25 

837-39 

835 

889-93 

839-43 

861-63 

855-57 

859-61 

829-3S 


120 


STATE  OFFICERS  OF  CONNECTICUT  SINCE  1819 
AND  THEIR  TERM  OF  OFFICE 


Name 


Governors. 

[The  names  of  those  who  are  deceased  are  marked  *, 
Residence.  Term  of  Service. 

[Present   P.  O.    Address,   if  living,   in   Italics.] 


Oliver  Wolcott Litchfield, 

Gideon  Tomlinson Fairfield, 

John  S.  Peters  Hebron, 

Henry  W.  Edwards New  Haven, 

Samuel  A.  Foot  Cheshire, 

Henry  W.  Edwards New  Haven, 

William  W.  Ellsworth  Hartford, 

Chauncey  F.  Cleveland Hampton, 

Roger  S.  Baldwin  New  Haven, 

Isaac  Toucey Hartford, 

Clark  Bissell  Norwalk, 

Joseph  Trumbull  Hartford, 

Thomas  H.  Seymour  Hartford, 

Charles  H.  Pond,  a Milford, 

Henry  Dutton New  Haven, 

William  T.  Minor  Stamford, 

Alexander  H.  Holley  Salisbury, 

William  A.  Buckingham   Norwich, 

Joseph  R.  Hawley Hartford, 

James  E.  English  New  Haven, 

Marshall  Jewell  Hartford, 

James  E.  English New  Haven, 

Marshall  Jewell   Hartford, 

Charles  R.  Ingersoll,  b New  Haven, 

Richard  D.  Hubbard Hartford, 

Charles  B.  Andrews Litchfield, 

Hobart  B.  Bigelow  New  Haven, 

Thomas  M.  Waller New  London, 

Henry  B.  Harrison  New  Haven, 

Phineas  C.  Lounsbury  Ridgefield, 

Morgan  G.  Bulkeley Hartford, 

Luzon  B.  Morris   New  Haven, 

O.  Vincent  Coffin    Middletown, 

Lorrin  A.  Cooke  Winsted, 

George  E.  Lounsbury Ridgefield, 

George  P.  McLean  Simsbury, 

Abiram  Chamberlain Meriden, 

Henry  Roberts   Hartford, 

Rollin  S.  Woodruff New  Haven, 

George  L.  Lilley,  c  Waterbury, 

Frank  B.  Weeks '.Middletown, 

Simeon  E.  Baldwin  New  Haven, 

Marcus  H.  Holcomb Southington. 


1817-27, 
1827-31, 
1831-33, 
1833-34, 
1834-35, 
1835-38, 
1838-42, 
1842-44, 
1844-46, 
1846-47, 
1847-49, 
1849-50, 

1850-53, 

1853-54, 

1854-55, 

1855-57, 

1857-58, 

1858-66, 

1866-67, 

1867-69, 

1869-70, 

1870-71, 

I87I-73, 

1873-77, 

1877-79, 

1879-81, 

1881-83, 

1883-85, 

1885-87, 

1887^89, 

1889-93, 

1893-95. 

1895-97, 

1897-99, 

1899-1901, 

1901-1903, 

1 903-1 905, 

1905-1907, 

1907-1909, 

1909, 

1909-1911, 

1911-1915, 

1915- 


year. 

u 

years. 


Years 
of  Service. 

10  years. 

4      " 

2      " 

1 

1 

3 

4 

2      " 

2      " 

1  year. 

2  years. 
1  year. 

3  yrs.  I  m. 

11  months. 

1  year. 

2  years. 
1  year. 
8  years. 

1  year. 

2  years. 
1  year. 

1  " 

2  years. 

3  yrs.  9  m. 
2  years. 

2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
4 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 

3 
1 


m.  15  d. 
yr.  8  m. 


15  d. 


4  years. 


o  Governor  Pond  was  elected  Lieutenant-Governor  in  April,  1853,  and  became  Acting- 
Governor  by  resignation  of  Governor  Seymour  on  October  13,  1853,  when  the  latter  was 
appointed  Minister  to  Russia. 

b  By  Constitutional  Amendment  of  1875,  the  term  for  1876-7  was  made  to  expire- 
January,   1877. 

c   Died  in  office  April  21,  1909,  and  Frank  B.  Weeks  became  governor. 

121 


year. 


years. 


year. 

years. 

year. 


years, 
year. 


Lieutenant  Governors. 

IT  he  names  of  those  who  are  deceased  are  marked  *.] 

Residence.  Term  of  Service.  Years 

Name  [Present   P.  O.    Address,  if  living,   in   Italics.']  of  Service. 

♦  Jonathan  Ingersoll,  a  New  Haven,  1816-23,  6  yrs.  8  m. 

♦David   Plant   Stratford,  1823-27,  4  years. 

♦  John  S.  Peters  Hebron,  1827-31,  4      " 

No  Election 1831-32, 

♦Thaddeus  Betts   ..Norwalk,  1832-33, 

♦Ebenezer  Stoddard  Woodstock,  1833-34, 

♦Thaddeus  Betts   Norwalk,  1834-35, 

♦  Ebenezer  Stoddard  Woodstock,  1835-38, 

♦  Charles  Hawley  Stamford,  1838-42, 

♦  William  S.  Holabird  ....... .  Winsted,  1842-44, 

♦  Reuben  Booth Danbury,  1844-46, 

♦  Noyes  Billings   New  London,  1846-47, 

♦  Charles  J.  McCurdy Lyme,  1847-49, 

♦  Thomas  Backus   Killingly,  1849-50, 

♦Charles  H.  Pond  Milford,  1850-51, 

♦  Green  Kendrick Waterbury,  1851-52, 

♦  Charles  H.  Pond  Milford,  1852-54, 

♦  Alexander  H.  Holley Salisbury,  1854-55, 

♦  William  Field  Pomf ret,  1855-56, 

♦Albert  Day    Hartford,  1856-57, 

♦  Alfred  A.  Burnham  Windham,  1857-58, 

♦  Julius  Catlin   Hartford,  1858-61,  3  years. 

♦  Benjamin  Douglas Middletown,  1861-62,  1  year. 

♦  Roger  Averill   Danbury,  1862-66,  4  years. 

♦Oliver  F.  Winchester New   Haven,  1866-67,  1  year. 

♦  Ephraim  H.  Hyde Stafford,  1867-69,  2  years. 

♦  Francis  Wayland  New  Haven,  1869--70,  1  year. 

♦  Julius  Hotchkiss   Middletown,  1870-71,  1       " 

♦  Morris   Tyler    New  Haven,  1871-73,  2 

♦  George  G.  Sill Hartford,  1873-77,  4 

♦Francis  B.  Loomis   New  London,  1877-79,,  2 

♦  David  Gallup Plainfield,  1879-81,  2 

♦  William  H.  Bulkeley Hartford,  1881-83,  2 

♦  George  G.  Sumner  Hartford,  1883-85,  2 

♦  Lorrin  A.  Cooke Winsted,  1885-87,  2 

♦  James  L.  Howard  Hartford,  1887-89,  2 

♦  Samuel  E.  Merwin   New  Haven,  1889-93,  4 

♦  Ernest  Cady   Hartford,  1893-95,  2 

♦Lorrin  A.  Cooke  Winsted,  1895-97,  2 

♦  James  D.  Dewell  New  Haven,  1897-99,  2 

Lvman  A.  Mills   Middle  field,  1899-1001,        2 

Edwin  O.  Keeler Norwalk,  1 901-1903,        2 

Henry  Roberts   Hartford,  1903-1905,        2 

Rollin  S.  Woodruff New  Haven,  1005-1007,        2 

Everett  J.  Lake  Hartford,  1907-1909,        2 

Frank  B.  Weeks,  b   Middletown,  1909,  3 

Dennis  A.  Blakeslee New  Haven,  1911-1913,        2 

Lyman  T.  Tingier    Rockville,  1913-1915,        2       " 

Clifford  B.  Wilson Bridgeport,  1915- 

a  Died  January  12,   1823. 

b  Governor    Weeks    was    elected    Lieutenant-Governor    and    became    Governor    on    the 
death  of  Governor  Lilley,  taking  the  oath  of  office  April  22,  1909. 


years. 


m.  15  d. 

years. 


122 


Secretaries. 

[.The  names  of  those  who  are  deceased  are  marked  *.] 

Residence.  Term  of  Service.                  Years 
Name                  [Present   P.  O.   Address,   if  living,   in  Italics.']                   of  Service. 

*  Thomas  Day  Hartford,  1810-35,  25  years. 

*  Royal  R.  Hinman   Southbury,  1835-42,  7       " 

*  Noah  A.  Phelps  Hartford,  1842-44,  2      " 

*  Daniel  P.  Tyler  Pomf  ret,  1844-46,  2      " 

*  Charles  W.  Bradley Hartford,  1846-47,  1  year. 

*  John  B.  Robertson New  Haven,  1847-49,  2  years. 

♦Roger  H.  Mills   New  Hartford,  1849-50,  1  year. 

*  Hiram  Weed  f    Danbury,  1850,  1  month. 

♦John  P.  C.  Mather  New  London,  1850-54,  3  yrs.  11  m. 

*  Oliver  H.  Perry Fairfield,  1854-55,  l  year. 

*  N.  D.  Sperry   New  Haven,  1855-57,  2  years. 

*  Orville  H.  Piatt  Meriden,  1857-58,     .  1  year. 

*  John  Boyd  Winchester,  1858-61,  3  years. 

♦J.  Hammond  Trumbull   Hartford,  1861-66,  5       " 

*  Leverett  E.  Pease  Somers,  1866-69,  3      " 

♦Hiram  Appleman Groton,  1869-70,  1  year. 

Thomas  M.  Waller New  London,  1870-71,  1       " 

♦Hiram  Appleman  $   Groton,  1871-73,  2  years. 

*  D.  Webster  Edgecomb Fairfield,  1873,  12  days. 

*  Marvin  H.  Sanger Canterbury,  1873-77,  4  years. 

*  Dwight  Morris  Bridgeport,  1877-79,  2 

*  David  Torrance   Derby,  1879-81,  2 

Charles  E.  Searls Thompson,  1881-83,  2 

*  D.  Ward  Northrop  Middletown,  1883-85,  2 

*  Charles  A.  Russell Killingly,  1885-87,  2 

*  Leverett  M.  Hubbard Wallingford,  1887-89,  2 

*  R.  Jay  Walsh    Greenwich,  1889-93,  4 

John  J.  Phelan  Bridgeport,  1893-95,  2 

♦William  C.  Mowry  Norwich,  1895-97,  2 

Charles  Phelps  Rockville,  1897-99,  2 

*  Huber  Clark  Willimantic,  1899-1901,  2 

Charles  G.  R.  Vinal Middletown,  1901-1905,  4 

Theodore  Bodenwein  New  London,  1 905-1909,  4 

Matthew  H.  Rogers  Bridgeport,  1909-1913,  4 

Albert  Phillips  Stamford,  1913-1915,  2 

Charles  D.  Burnes   Greenwich,  1915-1917,  2 

Frederick  L.  Perry New  Haven,  1917- 

t  Died  in  office,  June  7,  1850,  and  John  P.  C.  Mather  was  appointed  by  the  General 
Assembly,  June  21,  1850,  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

t  Resigned  April  25,  1873,  and  D.  W.  Edgecomb  was  appointed  to  the  vacancy  by 
Governor  Jewell. 


123 


Treasurers. 

[The  names  of  those  who  are  deceased  are  marked  *.] 

Residence.  Term  of  Service.                  Years 
Name                  [Present   P.  O.    Address,   if  living,   in  Italics.]                   of  Service. 

*  Isaac  Spencer  . .  Haddam,  1818-35,  17  years. 

♦Jeremiah   Brown    Hartford,  1835-38,  3      " 

*  Hiram  Rider  Wellington,  1838-42,  4      " 

*  Jabez  L.  White,  Jr Bolton,  1842-44,  2      " 

♦Joseph  B.  Gilbert  Hartford,  1844-46,  2      " 

*  Alonzo  W.   Birge    Coventry,  1846-47,  1  year. 

*  Joseph  B.  Gilbeert Hartford,  1847-49,  2  years. 

*  Henry  D.  Smith Middletown,  1849-51,  2      " 

*  Thomas   Clark   Coventry,  1851-52,  1  year. 

*  Edwin  Stearns  Middletown,  1852-54,  2  years. 

*  Daniel  W.  Camp   Middletown,  1854-55,  1  year. 

*  Arthur  B.  Calef  Middletown,  1855-56,  1       " 

♦Frederick   P.   Coe    Killingly,  1856-57,  1       " 

*  Frederick  S.  Wildman Danbury,  1857-58,  1       " 

*  Lucius  J.  Hendee Hebron,  1858-61,  3  years. 

*  Ezra  Dean  Woodstock,  1861-62,  1  year. 

*  Gabriel  W.  Coite  Middletown,  1862-66,  4  years. 

*  Henry  G.  Taintor Hampton,  1866-67,  1  year. 

*  Edward  S.  Moseley Hampton,  1867-69,  2  years. 

♦David  P.  Nichols Danbury,  1869-70,  1  year. 

*  Charles  M.  Pond  Hartford,  1870-71,  1       " 

*  David  P.  Nichols Danbury,  1871-73,  2  years. 

*  William  E.  Raymond  New  Canaan,  1873-77,  4      " 

*  Edwin  A.  Buck   Willimantic,  1877-79,  2      " 

*  Talmadge  Baker   So.  Norwalk,  1870-81,  2      " 

*  David  P.  Nichols  f  Danbury,  1881-82,  1  year. 

*  James  D.  Smith  Stamford,  1882-83,  1       " 

♦Alfred  R.  Goodrich   Vernon,  1883-85,  2  years. 

♦Valentine  B.  Chamberlain  ...New  Britain,  1885-87,  2      " 

♦Alexander  Warner  Pomfret,  1887-89,  2      " 

E.  Stevens  Henry  Rockville,  1889-93,  4      " 

♦Marvin  H.   Sanger   Canterbury,  1893-95,  2      " 

*  George  W.  Hodge Windsor,  1895-97,  2      " 

Charles  W.  Grosvenor Pomfret,  1897-99,  2       " 

♦Charles  S.  Mersick New  Haven,  1899-1901,  2      " 

Henry  H.  Gallup  Norwich,  1901-1905,  4      " 

James  F.  Walsh  Greenwich,  1905-1907,  2      " 

Freeman  F.  Patten   Stafford  Springs,     1907-1911,  4      " 

Costello   Lippitt    Norwich,  1911-1913,  2       " 

Edward  S.  Roberts  Canaan,  1913-1915,  2      " 

Freder'k  S.  Chamberlain New  Britain,  1915-19,  4      " 

G.  Harold  Gilpatric   Putnam,  1919- 

t  Died   January  2,   1882,   and  James   D.    Smith   was  appointed   by  the    Governor   to   nit 
the  vacancy. 


124 


Comptrollers. 

IT  he  names  of  those  who  are  deceased  are  marked  *. 

Residence.  Term  of  Service. 

Name  [Present   P.  O.    Address,   if  living,   in   Italics.} 

*  James  Thomas  Hartford,  1819-30, 

*  Elisha  Phelps  Simsbury,  1830-34, 

*  Roger  Huntington Norwich,  1834-35, 

*  Gideon  Welles   Hartford,  1835-36, 

*  William  Field  Pom  fret,  1836-38, 

*  Henry  Kilbourn  Hartford,  1838-42, 

*  Gideon  Welles Hartford,  1842-44, 

*  Abijah   Carrington    New  Haven,  1844-46, 

*  Mason    Cleveland    Hampton,  1846-47, 

*  Abijah  Catlin   Harwinton,  1847-50, 

*  Rufus  G.  Pinney  Stafford,  1850-54, 

*  John  Dunham  Norwich,  1854-55, 

*  Alexander  Merrell    New  London,  1855-56, 

*  Edward  Prentis   New  London,  1856-57, 

*  Joseph  G.  Lamb Norwich,  1857-58, 

*  William  H.  Buell Clinton,  1858-61, 

*  Leman  W.  Cutler Watertown,  1861-66, 

*Robbins  Battell Norfolk,  1866-67, 

*  Jesse  Olney  Stratford,  1867-69, 

*  James  W.  Manning Putnam,  1869-70, 

*  Seth  S.  Logan   Washington,  1870-71, 

*  James  W.  Manning Putnam,  1871-73, 

*  Alfred  R.  Goodrich Vernon,  1873-77, 

*  Charles  C.  Hubbard  Middletown,  1877-79, 

*Chauncey  Hubbard  So.  Coventry,  1879-81, 

*  Wheelock  T.  Batcheller Winsted,  1881^83, 

Frank  D.  Sloat Washington,  D.  C.   1883-85, 

*  Luzerne  I.  Munson  Waterbury,  1885-87, 

*  Thomas  Clark No.  Ston'ton,  1887-89, 

*  John  B.  Wright  Clinton,  1889-91, 

*  Nicholas  Staub New  Milford,  1891-95, 

*  Benjamin  P.  Mead  New  Canaan,  1895-99, 

*  Thompson  S.  Grant Enfield,  1899-1901, 

*  Abiram  Chamberlain   Meriden,  1901-1903, 

*  William  E.  Seeley Bridgeport,  1903-1905, 

Asahel  W.  Mitchell No.  Woodbury,       1905-1907, 

*  Thomas  D.  Bradstreet Thomaston,  1907-1913, 

Daniel  P.  Dunn   Willimantic,  1913-1915, 

Morris  C.  Webster  Torrington,  R.  D.     1915- 


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Attorneys-General 

Residence.  Term  of  Service.  Years 

Name  [Present   P.   O.    Address,   if  living,   in   Italics.']  of  Service. 

Charles  Phelps  Rockville,  1899-1903,  4  years. 

William  A.   King    Willimantic,  1903-1007,  4      " 

Marcus  H.  Holcomb,  a Southington,  1 007-1910,  3  yrs.  8  m.     9  d. 

John  H.  Light,  b  Norwalk,  1910-1915,  4  yrs.  3  m.  21  d. 

George  E.  Hinman  Willimantic,  1915-1919,  4  years. 

Frank  E.  Healy   Windsor  Locks,  1919- 

o  Resigned  to  become  a  judge  of  the   Superior  Court. 

b  Appointed  September  15,   1910,  by  Governor  Weeks  to  fill  unexpired  term  of  Marcus 
Holcomb.     Elected  for   full  term  of  4  years  in  November,    1910. 

125 


SPEAKERS  OF  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTA- 
TIVES OF  CONNECTICUT. 

1819  to    1919 


[The  names  of  those  who  are  deceased  are  marked  *.] 

Present  P.  O. 
Names.  Towns.  address. 

*  Plant,  David,  Stratford,  

*  Phelps,  Elisha,  Simsbury,  

*  Beers,  Seth  P.,  Litchfield,  

*  Ingersoll,  Ralph  I.,  New  Haven,  

*  Foot,  Samuel  A.,  Cheshire,  

*  Young,  Ebenezer,  Killingly,  

*  Phelps,  Elisha,  Simsbury,  

*  Edwards,  Henry  W.,  New  Haven,  

*  Welles,  Martin,  Wethersfield,  

*  Ingham,  Samuel,  Saybrook,  

*  Huntington,  Roger,  a  Norwich,  

*  Storrs,  William  L.  Middletown,  

*  Ingham,  Samuel,  b  Saybrook,  

*  Cleveland,  Chaun.  F.  Hampton,  

*  Wightman,  St'm'n  K.,  Middletown,  

*  Boardman,  Wm.  W.,  New  Haven,  

*  McCurdy,  Charles  J.,  Lyme,  

*  Wightman,  St'm'n  K.,  Middletown,  

*  Billings,  Noyes,  New  London,  

*  McCurdy,  Charles  J.,  Lyme,  

*  Boardman,  Wm.  W.,  New  Haven,  

*  Beardslee,  Cyrus  H.,  Monroe,  

*  Foster,  La  Fayette  S.,  Norwich,  

*  Lewis,  John  C,  Plymouth,  

*  Seymour,  Origen  S.,  Litchfield,  

*  Ingham,  Samuel,  Saybrook,  

*  Phelps,  Charles  B.,  Woodbury,  

*  Eaton,  William  W.,  Hartford,  

*  Foster,  La  Fayette  S.,  e  Norwich,  

*  Kendrick,  Green,  Waterbury,  

*  Baldwin,  Austin,  Middletown,  

*  Kendrick,  Green,  Waterbury,  

*  Bulkeley,  Eliph.  A.,  Hartford,  

*  Burnham,  Alfred  A.,  Windham,  

*  Perry,  Oliver  H.,  Fairfield,  

*  Brandegee,  Augustus,  d  New  London,  

*  Deming,  Henry  C,  Hartford,  

*  Carter,  Josiah  M.,  Norwalk,  

*  Cleveland,  Chaun.  F„  Hampton,  

*  Rice,  John  S.,  Farmington,  

*  Foster,  Eleazer  K.,  New  Haven,  

*  Gallup,  David,  Plainfield,  

*  Wait,  John  T.,  Norwich,  

*  Ives,  Charles,  East  Haven,  

*  Piatt,  Orville  H.,  Meriden,  

126 


Years  of 
service. 

1819,  20. 

182 1. 

1822,  23. 
1824. 
1825,  26. 
1827,  28.. 
1829. 
1830. 
183 1,  32- 
1833. 
1834. 
1834. 
1835. 
1835,  36- 
1837. 
1838,  39. 
184O,  41. 
1842. 
1843. 
1844. 
1845. 
1846. 
1847,  48- 
1849. 
1850. 

185 1. 

1852. 

1853. 

1854. 

1854. 

1855. 

1856. 

1857. 

1858. 

1859,  60- 

l86l. 

l86l. 

1862. 

1863. 

1864. 

1865. 

1866. 

1867. 

1868. 


Names. 

*  Foster,  La  Fayette  S., 

*  Burnham,  Alfred  A., 

*  Bugbee,  Edwin  H., 

*  Treat,  Amos  S., 

*  Eaton,  William  W., 
*Doolittle,  Tilton  F., 

*  Durand,  Charles, 
Waller,  Thomas  M., 

*  Harrison,  Lynde, 

*  Briscoe,  Charles  H., 

*  Wright,  Dexter  R., 

*  Marcy,  Dwight, 

*  Case  William  C, 

*  Hall,  John  M., 

*  Pine,  Charles  H., 

*  Harrison,  Henry  B., 

*  Simonds,  Wm.  Edgar, 

*  Tibbits,  John  A., 

*  Hoyt,  Huested  W.  R., 
Perry,  John  H., 

*  Paige,  Allan  W., 

*  Brooks,  Isaac  W., 

*  Fessenden,  Samuel, 

*  Barbour,  Joseph  L., 
Brandegee,  Frank  B., 
Light,  John  H., 

*  Kenealy,  Michael, 
Holcomb,  Marcus  H., 
Tilson,  John  Q., 
Banks,  Elmore  S., 
Scott,  Frederick  A., 
Webster,  Morris  C, 
Healy,  Frank  E., 
Walsh,  James  F., 


Towns. 

Norwich, 

Windham, 

Killingly, 

Woodbridge, 

Hartford, 

New  Haven, 

Derby, 

New  London, 

Guilford, 

Enfield, 

New  Haven, 

Vernon, 

Granby, 

Windham, 

Derby, 

New  Haven, 

Canton, 

New  London, 

Greenwich, 

Fairfield, 

Huntington, 

Torrington, 

Stamford, 

Hartford, 

New  London, 

Norwalk, 

Stamford, 

Southington, 

New  Haven, 

Fairfield, 

Plymouth, 

Harwinton, 

Windsor  Locks, 

Greenwich. 


Present  P.  O. 
address. 


New  London, 


Southport, 


New  London, 
So.  Norwalk, 

Southington, 
New  Haven, 
Fairfield, 
Terryville, 
Torring'n  r.f.d. 
Windsor  L'ks, 


Years  of 
service. 

1870. 

1870. 

187 1 

1872 

1873 

1874 

1875 

1876, 

1877 

1878 

1879 
1880 
l88l 
1882 
1883 
1884 
1885 
1886 
1887 
1889. 
189I 
1893 
1895 
1897 
1899 
1901 
I903 
I905 
I907 
1909 
I9II 
1913 
1915 
I9I9 


17. 


a  Resigned  May  24,  1834,  having  been  appointed  Comptroller,  and  William  L.  Storrs 
was  appointed  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

b  Resigned  May  IS,  1835,  and  Chauncey  F.  Cleveland  was  chosen  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

c  Resigned  June  8,  1854,  having  been  elected  U.  S.  Senator,  and  Green  Kendrick  was 
chosen  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

d  At  a  special  session,  held  Oct.  9,  1861,  the  speaker,  Mr.  Brandegee,  being  detained 
from  the  House  by  illness,  Mr.  Deming  was  chosen  speaker  pro  tempore. 

e  Resigned  June  16,  1870,  having  been  chosen  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Errors, 
and  Alfred  A.  Burnham  of  Windham  was  chosen  to  fill  the  vacancy. 


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MEMBERS  AND  OFFICERS 

OF  THE 

GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  OF  THE  STATE  OF 

CONNECTICUT, 

MAY  SESSION,  1818. 


STATE  OFFICERS 

His  Excellency  OLIVER  WOLCOTT,  Esq.,  Governor 

His  Honor  JONATHAN  INGERSOLL,  Esq.,  Lieut.-Governor 

THOMAS  DAY,  Esq.,  Secretary 

ISAAC  SPENCER,  2D,  Esq.,  Treasurer 

ELISHA  COLT,  Esq.,  Comptroller 


ASSISTANTS 


Hon.  Jonathan     Brace,    Esq., 
Frederick  Wolcott, 
Asa   Chapman, 
Elias    Perkins, 
William   Bristol, 
Elijah  Boardman, 


Hon.  David  Tomlinson, 
"     Sylvester  Wells, 
"     John  S.  Peters, 
"     James  Lanman, 
"     Enoch   Burroughs, 
"     Peter  Webb, 


Esq. 


HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES 

speaker 
Gideon  Tomilson,  Esq.,  of  Fairfield 
Elisha  Phelps,  Esq.,  Samuel  A.  Foote,  Esq.,  Clerks 


Michael  Olcott,  Hartford 
Jonathan   W.    Edward,    Hartford 
Andrew   Pratt,   Berlin 
Luther  Beckley,  Berlin 
Enos  Ives.  Bristol 
Theodore   Pettibone,   Burlington 
Darius  Moses,  Canton 
Shubael    Griswold,    East    Hartford 
Benjamin  Lyman,  East  Hartford 
Abner  Read,  East  Windsor 
Joel  Holkins,  East  Windsor 
Elam  O.   Potter,  Enfield 
William  Dixon,  Enfield 
John  Mix,  Farmington 
George  Norton,  Farmington 
Samuel   Wells,   Glastonbury 
David  E.  Hubbard,  Glastonbury 
Zadoce  Wilcox,  Granby 
Joseph  Pinney,  Granby 
Philander  Humphreys,  Hartland 
Lent  Benham,   Hartland 


Joel  Foote,  Marlborough 
Elisha  Phelps,  Simsbury 
Zelotes  Phelps,  Simsbury 
.  Roswell  Moore,  Southington 
Chester    Grannis,    Southington 
Elisha  Gunn,  Suffield 
Martin  Sheldon,   Suffield 
Ezekial  P.  Belden,  Wethersfield 
Levi  Lusk,  Wethersfield 
William   Alford,   Windsor 
Eliakim  Marshall,   Windsor 
Thomas  Ward,  New  Haven 
Henry  W.  Edwards,  New  Haven 
Eli  Fowler,  Branford 
Josiah  I.  Linsley,  Branford 
Samuel  A.  Foote,  Cheshire    ■ 
Silas  Hitchcock,  Cheshire 
Sheldon   Curtiss,   Derbv 
James  Thomson,  East  Haven 
Nathaniel  Griffing,  Guilford 
Samuel   Robinson,   Guilford 


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Amasa  Bradley,  Hamden 
Othniel  Ives,  Meriden 
Philo  Bronson,  Middlebury 
Benjamin  Bull,  Mil  ford 
Samuel   B.   Gunn,  Milford 
Daniel  Pierpont,  North  Haven 
Jared  Hawley,  Oxford 
Curtiss  Hinman,   Southbury 
Abel  Sanford,  Wallingford 
Elkanah  Hall,  Wallingford 
James  M.  L.  Scovill,  Waterbury 
Timothy  Gibbud,  Waterbury 
Justus  Thomas,  Woodbridge 
Chauncey  Tolles,  Woodbridge 
Erastus  Welton,  Wolcott 
Henry   Channing,   New  London 
William  Stockman,  New  London 
Cushing  Eells,  Norwich 
Newcomb  Kinney,  Norwich 
William  Whiting,  Bozrah 
Benjamin  Trumbull,  Colchester 
John  R.  Watrous,  Colchester 
Joshua  Tracey,  Franklin 
Nathan   Geer,  Griswold 
Noyes  Barber,   Groton 
Philip  Gray,  Groton 
Frederick   Perkins,  Lisbon 
Richard  E.  Selden,  Lyme 
Peter  Comstock,  Lyme 
Oliver  Comstock,  Montville 
Nathan   Pendleton,   No.   Stonington 
Stanton   Hewitt,   No.   Stonington 
John  T.  Mott,  Preston 
John  Brewster,  Preston 
George  Hubbard,  Stonington 
William  Randall,  Stonington 
Isaac  Frink,  Waterford 
Gideon  Tomlinson,  Fairfield 
Thomas  F.  Rowland,  Fairfield 
Samuel  Tweedy,  Jr.,  Danbury 
Zalmon  Wildman  Danbury 
William  Meeker,  Brookfield 
Isaac  Howe,  Greenwich 
Clark   Sanford,   Greenwich 
Abner  Hyde,  Huntington 
Samuel  Wheeler,  Huntington 
Nathan  Seeley,   New   Canaan 
Jabez  Treadwell,  New  Fairfield 
Gideon   Botsford,  Newtown 
Joseph  B.  Wheeler,  Newtown 
William  L.  Street,  Norwalk 
Dan  Taylor,  Norwalk 
Billy  Comstock,  Redding 
Aaron  Sanford,  Jr.,  Redding 
Eliphalet  Brush,  Ridgefield 
Jabez  M.  Gilbert,  Ridgefield 
John  Orton,  Sherman 
James  Stevens,  Stamford 
Thaddeus  Bell,  Stamford 
David  Plant,  Stratford 
Ephraim   L.   Wilcoxson,   Stratford 
Daniel  Seeley,  Trumbull 
Stephen  Wheeler,  Weston 


Oliver  C.  Sanford,  Weston 
Erastus  Sturges,  Wilton 
John  Baldwin,  Windham 
Edmund  Badger,  Windham 
David  Brewster,  Ashford 
David  Kyes,  Ashford 
Vine  Robinson,  Brooklyn 
Solomon    Payne,   Canterbury 
Asa  Butts,  Canterbury 
Asahel   Kingsley,   Columbia 
Joseph   Prentiss,   Hampton 
Shubael  Hutchins,  Killingly 
Andrew  Leavins,  Killingly 
Simeon  M.  Webster,  Lebanon 
Isaiah  Loomis,  Lebanon 
William  Bennett,  Mansfield 
Seth  Dunham,  Mansfield 
Sessions  Lester,    Plainfield 
Oliver  Coates,   Plainfield 
Pardon  Kingsley,   Pomfret 
Samuel  Allen,  2d,  Pomfret 
Dixon  Hall,  Sterling 
John  Jacobs,  Jr.,  Thompson 
Elijah  Nicholls,  Jr.,  Thompson 
William  Gallup,  Voluntown 
John  Fox,  Woodstock 
John  McClellan,  Woodstock 
Stephen  Russell,  Litchfield 
Ephraim  S.  Hall,  Litchfield 
John  Merrills,  Barkhemsted 
Oliver  Mills,  Barkhemsted 
Nehemiah  Lambert,  Bethlem 
Jabez  Brewster,  Canaan 
Nathaniel  Stevens,  Canaan 
Asaph  Pinney,  Colebrook 
Rufus  North,  Colebrook 
Noah  Rogers,  Cornwall 
Philo  Swift,   Cornwall 
Julius  Beach,  Goshen 
William    Stanley,    Goshen 
William  C.  Abernethy,  Harwington 
Uriah  Hopkins,  Harwington 
Abel  Beach,  Kent 
Aaron  Austin,  New  Hartford 
Asa  Goodwin,  New  Hartford 
Orange  Merwin,  New  Milford 
Homer  Boardman,  New  Milford 
Nathaniel  Stevens,  Norfolk 
Augustus  Pettibone,  Norfolk 
Calvin  Butler,   Plymouth 
Josiah  R.  Eastman,  Roxbury 
Daniel  Johnson,   Salisbury 
Abijah   C.   Peet,   Salisbury 
Hezekiah    Goodwin,    Sharon 
Thomas  St.  John,  Sharon 
Lyman  Wetmore,  Torrington 
John   Gillet,  Jr.,  Torrington 
Homer   Sacket,    Warren 
Daniel    B.    Brinsmade,    Washington 
Joseph  Whittlesey,  Washington 
Amos   Baldwin,   Watertown 
Matthew  Adams,  Winchester 
Riley  Whiting,   Winchester 

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Nathan  Preston,  Woodbury 
Philo  Murray,  Woodbury 
John  Alsop,  Middletown 
Nathan    Starr,   Jr.,   Middletown 
John  Brainerd,  2d,  Haddam 
George  W.  Smith,  Haddam 
Enoch  Sage,  Chatham 
Nehemiah    Gates,    Chatham 
Bridgman    Guernsey,    Durham 
Asahel    Strong,    Durham 
Isaac  Spencer,  Jr.,  East  Haddam 
Richard   Lord,   East   Haddam 
George  Carter,  Killingworth 
Benjamin  Hill,  Killingworth 
Joseph   Hill,    Saybrook 
John  Stannard,  Saybrook 
Eliphalet  Young,   Tolland 


Gurdon  Thomson,  Tolland 
Ichabod  M.  Warner,  Bolton 
Cephas   Brigham,   Coventry 
Jasper   Fitch,    Coventry 
Asa   Willey,   Ellington 
Daniel  Burrows,  Hebron 
Simon   House,  Hebron 
Joseph  Abbott,   Somers 
Reuben   Chapin,    Somers 
Benning  Mann,  Stafford 
Gardner   Cady,   Stafford 
Ing'sby  W.  Crawford,  Union 
Nathaniel  Newell,  Union 
Lemuel   King,  Vernon 
Daniel  Glazier,  Willington 
Jonathan  Sibley,  Jr.,  Willington 


OCTOBER  SESSION,  1818 


SPEAKER 


Gideon  Tomlinson,  Esq.,  of  Fairfield 
Samuel  A.  Foote,  Esq.,  Henry  W.  Edwards,  Esq.,  Clerks 


John  Russ,  Hartford 
Henry  Kilbourn,   Hartford 
Luther   Beckly,    Berlin 
Andrew  Pratt,  Berlin 
Tracy   Peck,   Bristol 
Sylvester  Norton,  Burlington 
William  Stone,  Canton 
Richard  Pitkin,  East  Hartford 
Levi   Goodwin,   East   Hartford 
Timothy  Ellsworth,  East  Windsor 
Abner  Reed.  East  Windsor 
Henry  Terry,  Enfield 
William  Dixon,  Enfield 
John    Mix,    Farmington 
George  Norton,  Farmington 
Samuel  Welles,  Glastenbury 
Marvin  Dayton,  Glastenbury 
Benajah  Holcomb,  2d,  Granby 
John  Wrilley,  Granby 
Samuel  Benjamin,  Hartland 
Israel  Williams,  Hartland 
Joel    Foote,   Marlborough 
Oliver  C.   Phelps,   Simsbury 
Asa  Hoskins,  Simsbury 
Roswell   Moore,    Southington 
Chester  Grannis.  Southington 
Horace  King,  Sufneld 
Elisha  Gunn,  Sufneld 
Asher  Robbins,  Wethersfield 
Levi   Robbins,   Wethersfield 
Odiah   Loomis,   Windsor 
Joseph  H.  Russell,  Windsor 
Thonfas  Ward,  New  Haven 
Henry  W.  Edwards,  New  Haven 
Samuel  A.  Foote,  Cheshire 
Silas  Hitchcock,  Cheshire 
Eli  Fowler,  Branford 
Josiah  I.  Linsley,  Branford 
Sheldon  Curtiss,  Derby 


James  Thompson,  East  Haven 
Nathaniel  Griffing,  Guilford 
William  Todd,  Guilford 
Russell   Pierpont,  Hamden 
Elisha  Curtiss,  Meriden 
Philo   Bronson,   Middlebury 
Benjamin   Bull,   Milford 
Samuel  B.   Gunn,   Milford 
Stephen  Munson,  North  Haven 
Abel   Wheeler,   Oxford 
WTarren   Mitchell,   Southbury 
James   Humiston,   Wallingford 
George  Merriman,  Wallingford 
Ashley  Scott,  Waterbury 
Andrew  Adams,  Waterbury 
Justus  Thomas,  Woodbridge 
Chauncey   Tolles,   Woodbridge 
Erastus  Welton,  Wolcott 
Amasa  Learned,  New  London 
William  Stockman,  New  London 
Charles   Thomas,   Norwich 
Erastus  Coit,   Norwich 
William  Whiting,  Bozrah 
Samuel  A.  Peters,  Colchester 
John  R.  Watrous,  Colchester 
Andrew  Hyde,  Franklin 
William  Cogswell,  Griswold 
Noyes   Barber,   Groton 
Philip   Gray,   Groton 
Joseph  L.  Lyon,  Lisbon 
Peter  Comstock,  Lyme 
Samuel  B.  Mather,  Lyme 
John  Fitch,  Montville 
Samuel  Chapman,  No.  Stonington 
Daniel  Packer,  No.   Stonington 
James  Cook,  Preston 
Jonathan  Brewster,   Preston 
Samuel  F.  Denison,  Stonington 
Amos    Williams,    Stonington 

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Charles  Avery,  Waterford 
Gideon  Tomlinson,  Fairfield 
Thomas  F.   Rowland,  Fairfield 
Eden  Andrews,  Danbury 
Matthew  Wilkes,  Danbury 
Heman    Burch,    Brookfield 
Isaac   Howe,   Greenwich 
Charles   Smith,   Greenwich 
Samuel   Beardsley,   Huntington 
Nathan  G.  Birdsey,  Huntington 
Nathan  Seeley,  New  Canaan 
Benjamin  Bearss,  New  Fairfield 
Bennett    Perry,    Newtown 
Jacob  Beers,  Newtown 
Benjamin    Isaacs,   Norwalk 
Dan  Taylor,   Norwalk 
William   Sanford,   Redding 
John  Meeker,  Redding 
Eliphalet   Brush,   Ridgefield 
Jabez  M.  Gilbert,  Ridgefield 
William  Giddings,  Sherman 
James  Stevens,   Stamford 
Thaddeus    Bell,    Stamford 
David    Plant,    Stratford 
James  E.  Beach,  Stratford 
Lewis   Fairchild,    Trumbull 
Joseph  Bennett,  Weston 
Eliphalet  Cooley,  Weston 
Eliphalet  Taylor,  Wilton 
Amos  D.  Allen,  Windham 
Joshua  Smith,  Windham 
Stephen  Knowlton,  Ashford 
Jedediah  Watkins,  Ashford 
Shubael   Brown,    Brooklyn 
Solomon  Payne,  Canterbury 
Asa  Butts,  Canterbury 
Asahel  Kingsley,  Columbia 
Ebenezer   Grifnn,   Hampton 
Robert  Grosvenor,  Killingly 
James  Danielson,   Killingly 
Charles  'Abel,  Lebanon 
Joshua  Hall,  Lebanon 
William   Bennett,   Mansfield 
Seth  Dunham,  Mansfield 
Oliver  Coates,  Plainfield 
Erastus  Lester,   Plainfield 
Joseph   Scarborough,   Pomfret 
William  Osgood,  Pomfret 
Jeremiah  Young,   Sterling 
Wyman   Carrol,   Thompson 
Jesse  Ormsby,  Thompson 
Sterry    Kinne,   Voluntown 
John  Fox,   Woodstock 
Ebenezer   Skinner,    Woodstock 
Stephen  Russell,  Litchfield 
Phineas   Lord,   Litchfield 
Zophar   Case,   Berkhempsted 
Zalmon  Howd,  Berkhempsted 
Joseph  H.  Bellamy,  Bethlem 
Seth  Andrews,   Canaan 
Joshua    Cornwall,    Canaan 
Rufus  North,   Colebrook 


Timothy  Babcock,  Colebrook 
Philo   Swift,   Cornwall 
Noah  Rogers,  Cornwall 
William  Stanley,  Goshen 
Samuel   Lyman,    Goshen 
Wm.  C.  Abernethy,  Harwinton 
Roswell  Alford,  Harwinton 
Abel  Beach,  Kent 
Aaron    Austin,    New    Hartford 
Asa   Goodwin,   New  Hartford 
Homer  Boardman,  New  Milford 
Orange  Merwin,  New  Milford 
Augustus  Pettibone,  Norfolk 
Nathaniel    Stevens,    Norfolk 
Jacob  Hemingway,  Plymouth 
Elisha    Patterson,    Roxbury 
Silas   Reed,  Salisbury 
Alexander  Lamb,  Salisbury 
Oliver   Kellogg,    Sharon 
Ansel  Sterling,  Sharon 
Abel   Hinsdale,  Torrington 
William  Battell,  Torrington 
Augustus  Curtiss,  Warren 
John  N.  Gunn,  Washington 
Noble  Day,  Washington 
Amos  Baldwin,  Watertown 
Daniel   Phelps,  Winchester 
Nathaniel  B.  Gaylord,  Winchester 
John  P.  Marshall,  Woodbury 
Elijah   Sherman,  Jr.,  Woodbury 
John  Alsop,  Middletown 
Hosea  Goodrich,  Middletown 
Enoch  Sage,  Chatham 
Nehemiah  Gates,  Chatham 
Abel  Lyman,  Durham 
Manoah   Camp,   Durham 
Ezra  Brainard,  Haddam 
John  Brainard,  2d,  Haddam 
Chevers  Brainard,  East  Haddam 
William  Hungerford,  East  Haddam 
George   Elliott,   Killingworth 
Dan  Lane,  Killingworth 
Amb.  Whittlesey,  Jr.,  Saybrook 
Samuel  Colt,  Saybrook 
Eliphalet  Young,   Tolland 
William  Eldridge,  Tolland 
Ichabod  M.  Warner,  Bolton 
Elisha   Edgerton,  Coventry 
Daniel    White,    Coventry 
Asa  Willey,   Ellington 
Simon  House,  Hebron 
Thomas  Wells,  Hebron 
Reuben  Chapin,  Somers 
Oliver  Chapin,  2d,  Somers 
Jasper  Hyde,  Stafford 
Ephraim   Dimick,   Stafford 
John  Crawford,  Union 
Eleazer  Bugbee,  Union 
Lemuel   King,   Vernon 
Spafford    Brigham,    Willington 
Daniel   Glazier,   Willington 


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MEMBERS  AND  OFFICERS 

OF  THE 

GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  OF  THE  STATE  OF 

CONNECTICUT, 

MAY  SESSION,  1819. 


STATE  OFFICERS 

His  Excellency  OLIVER  WOLCOTT,  Esq.,  Governor 

His  Honor  JONATHAN  INGERSOLL,  Esq.,  Lieut-Governor 

THOMAS  DAY,  Esq.,  Secretary 

ISAAC  SPENCER,  Esq.,  Treasurer 

ELISHA  COLT,  Esq.,  Comptroller 

♦senators 


Hon.  Jonathan  Brace,  Esq., 
"     Frederick  Wolcott,  Esq., 
"     Elias  Perkins,  Esq., 
"     William  Bristol,  Esq., 
"     Elijah   Boardman,  Esq., 
"     David  Tomlinson,  Esq., 


Hon.  Sylvester  Wells,  Esq., 
"     John  S.  Peters,  Esq., 
"     Enoch  Burrows,  Esq., 
"      Peter  Webb,  Esq., 
"     David  Hill,   Esq., 
"     Joshua  Stow,  Esq., 


HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES 

SPEAKER 

David  Plant,  Esq.,  of  Stratford 
Ansel  Sterling,  Esq.,  Ralph  I.  Ingersoll,  Esq.,  Clerks 


Michael  Olcott,  Hartford 
Thomas  S.  Williams,  Hartford 
Samuel  Hart,  Berlin 
Thomas  Lee,  Berlin 
Tracy  Peck,  Bristol 
Sylvester   Norton,   Burlington 
Thomas   Bidwell,  Canton 
Daniel  Pitkin,  East  Hartford 
Joseph  Pitkin,  East  Hartford 
Timothy  Ellsworth,  East  Windsor 
Elihu  Wolcott,  East  Windsor 
Henry  Terry,  Enfield 
William    Dixon,    Enfield 
Timothy   Pitkin,   Farmington 
John  Mix,  Farmington 
Samuel  Wells,  Glastenbury 
David  E.  Hubbard,  Glastenbury 
Orrin  Lee,  Granby 


Nahum  Holcomb,  Granby 
Asa  Bushnell,  Hartland 
Jared  Newell,  Hartland 
Joel  Foote,  Marlborough 
Roger  Whittlesey,  Southington 
Roswell  Moore,  Southington 
Horace  King,  Suffield 
Apollos  Fuller,  Suffield 
Asa  Hoskins,  Simsbury 
James   Goodwin,  Simsbury 
Ezekiel  P.  Belden,  Wethersfield 
Levi  Lusk,  Wethersfield 
Joseph  H.  Russell,  Windsor 
Oliver   Filley,   Windsor 
Ralph  I.  Ingersoll,  New  Haven 
Charles  Bostwick,  New  Haven 
Eli   Fowler,   Branford 
Jonathan  Rose,  2d,  Branford 


•Note. —  After    the    adoption    of    the    Constitution    in    1818    the    name    Senators    was 
substituted  for  Assistants.     The  regular  October   Session  was  also  dispensed   with. 

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Silas    Hitchcock,    Cheshire 
Samuel  Peck,  Cheshire 
John  Humphreys,  Jr.,   Derby 
Bela  Farnham,  East  Haven 
Nathaniel  Griffing,  Guilford 
William  Todd,  Guilford 
Roger  Dorman,  Hamden 
William  Yale,  Meriden 
Philo  Bronson,  Middlebury 
Benjamin  Bull,  Milford 
Samuel  B.  Gunn,  Milford 
Stephen  Monson,  North  Haven 
Abel  Wheeler,  Oxford 
Curtiss  Hinman,   Southbury 
Samuel  Cook,  Wallingford 
Samuel  Tuttle,  Wallingford 
Ward    Peck,    Waterbury 
James  M.  L.  Scovill,  Waterbury 
Justus  Thomas,  Woodbridge 
Chauncey  Tolles,  Woodbridge 
Luther  Andrews,   Wolcott 
Lyman  Law,   New  London 
Jacob  B.  Gurley,  New  London 
Calvin  Goddard,  Norwich 
Newcomb  Kinney,   Norwich 
Perez  Cheesborough,  Bozrah 
Samuel  A.  Peters,  Colchester 
John  R.  Watrous,  Colchester 
Ira  Abel,  Franklin 
Thomas  Avery,   Groton 
Stephen  Billings,  Groton 
Elisha  I.  Abel,  Griswold 
Thomas   Kinsman,   Lisbon 
Moses  Warren,  Lyme 
Samuel  B.  Mather,  Lyme 
Mumford  Dolbear,  Montville 
Samuel  Chapman,  No.  Stonington 
Daniel  Packer,  No.  Stonington 
James  Cook,  Preston 
Jonathan   Brewster,   Preston 
Samuel  F.  Denison,  Stonington 
Amos  Williams,  Stonington 
Asa  Wightman,  Waterford 
John  Hull,  Fairfield 
Jeremiah  Sturges,  Fairfield 
Friend  Starr,  Danbury 
Zalmon  Wildman,   Danbury 
Czar  Starr,  Brookfield 
Enos  Lockwood,  Greenwich 
Stephen  Waring,  Greenwich 
Nathan  G.  Birdseye,  Huntington 
John  Peck,  Huntington 
Samuel  T.   Barnum,   New  Fairfield 
Isaac  Richards,  New  Canaan 
Joseph  B.  Wheeler,  Newtown 
Jeremiah   Beers,   Newtown 
Benjamin  Isaacs,  Norwalk 
Andrew  Hanford,  Norwalk 
Billy  Comstock,  Reading 
Hezekiah  Read,  Jr.,  Reading 
Gamaliel  Benedict,  Ridgefield 
Bradley  Hull.  Ridgefield 
Thaddeus  Bell.  Stamford 


Isaac  Lockwood,  Stamford 
David  Plant,  Stratford 
Reuben  Tweedy,  Stratford 
Jedediah   Graves,  Sherman 
Samuel  Gregory,  Trumbull 
Oliver  C.  Sanford,  Weston 
Stephen   Wheeler,   Weston 
Erastus  Sturges,  Wilton 
Amos  D.  Allen,  Windham 
John    Baldwin,    Windham 
Stephen  Knowlton,  Ashford 
Jedediah  Watkins,  Ashford 
Roger  W.  Williams,   Brooklyn 
Daniel  Frost,  Jr.,  Canterbury 
Asa  Butts,  Canterbury 
Elam  Loomis,   Columbia 
Joseph   Prentiss,   Hampton 
Luther  Warren,  Killingly 
David   Chase,   Killingly 
Charles  Abel,  Lebanon 
Joshua  Hall,  Lebanon 
Edmond  Freeman,  Mansfield 
Artemas  Gurley,  Mansfield 
Erastus    Lester,    Plainfield 
Vincent  Hinkley,  Plainfield 
Joseph  Scarborough,  Pomfret 
Lemuel  Ingalls,   Pomfret 
Dixon  Hall,  Sterling 
John  Nichols,  Jr.,  Thompson 
John  Jacobs,  Jr.,  Thompson 
Sterry  Kinney,  Voluntown 
Ebenezer  Skinner,  Woodstock 
John  McClellan,  Woodstock 
John  Welch,   Litchfield 
Phinehas  Lord,  Litchfield 
Zophar  Case,  Barkhemsted 
Salmon  Howd,  Barkhemsted 
Joseph  H.   Bellamy,  Bethlem 
Samuel  Robbins,  Canaan 
Ovid  Plumb,  Canaan 
Launcelot  Phelps,  Colebrook 
Enos  North,  Colebrook 
Oliver  Burnham,  Cornwall 
John  H.  Pierce,  Cornwall 
Samuel  Lyman,  Goshen 
William  Stanley,  Goshen 
William  C.  Abernethy,  Harwinton 
Enos  Frisbie,  Harwinton 
Lewis  Mills,  Kent 
Aaron  Austin,  New  Hartford 
Asa  Goodwin,  New  Hartford 
Orange  Merwin,  New  Milford 
Eli  Todd,  New  Milford 
Augustus   Pettibone,   Norfolk 
Nathaniel   Stevens,  Norfolk 
Jacob  Hemingway,  Plymouth 
Eli  M.   Smith,  Roxbury 
Daniel  Johnson,   Salisbury 
Abijah  C.  Peet,  Salisbury 
Oliver  Kellogg,  Sharon 
Ansel  Sterling,  Sharon 
Elihu  Cook,  Torrington 
John  Gillet,  Jr.,  Torrington 


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Samuel  Leavitt,  Washington 
Joseph  Whittlesey,  Washington 
Daniel  Hecox,  Watertown 
Judah  Eldred,  Warren 
James    Beebe,    Winchester 
James  Boyd,  Winchester 
Reuben  Martin,  Woodbury 
Nathan  Preston,  Woodbury 
John  Alsop,  Middletown 
Elisha  Coe,  Middletown 
Enoch  Sage,  Chatham 
Benjamin  Hurd,   Chatham 
Thomas  Lyman,  Durham 
John  Swathel,  Durham 
Cheves  Brainard,  East  Haddam 
Wm.  Hungerford,  East  Haddam 
John  Brainard,  2d,  Haddam 
Stephen  Tibballs,   Haddam 
Jared   Elliott,   Killingworth 
Moses  Wilcox,  Killingworth 


Clark  Nott,   Saybrook 
Elisha   Sill,   Saybrook 
William    Eldridge,   Tolland 
Hezekiah  Nye,  Tolland 
Ichabod  M.  Warner,  Bolton 
Cephus  Brigham,  Coventry 
Jasper  Fitch,  Coventry 
John  Hall,  Ellington 
Thomas  Wells,  Hebron 
Eleazer  Sweetland,  Hebron 
Oliver  Chapin,  2d,   Somers 
Joseph  Abbott,  Somers 
Jasper  Hyde,  Stafford 
Ephraim  Dimock,  Stafford 
IngMsby  W.  Crawford,  Union 
Nathaniel  Newell,  Union 
Phineas    Talcott,    Vernon 
Jonathan  Sibley,  Jr.,  Willington 
Daniel   Glazier,  Willington 


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DELEGATES  AND  OFFICERS 

TO  THE 

CONSTITUTIONAL  CONVENTION  OF  THE 

STATE  OF  CONNECTICUT  OF  1902 


President  —  HON.  CHARLES  B.  ANDREWS,  of  Litchfield. 
Vice-Presidents  — HON.  JOHN  H.  PERRY,  of  Fairfield; 

HON.  THOMAS  M.  WALLER,  of  New  London. 
Chaplains  —  REV.  WILLIAM  MARTIN  BROWN,  of  Bloomfield; 

REV.  CHARLES  H.  SMITH,  of  Plymouth. 
Clerk  —  FRANK  E.  HEALY,  of  Windsor  Locks. 
Assistant  Clerk  —  GEORGE  E.  HINMAN,  of  Windham. 


HARTFORD  COUNTY 


Hartford 

Avon 

Berlin 

Bloomfield 

Bristol 

Burlington 

Canton 

East   Granby 

East  Hartford 

East  Windsor 

Enfield 

Farmington 

Glastonbury 

Granby 


New    Haven 

Waterbury 

Ansonia 

Beacon  Falls 

Bethany 

Branford 

Cheshire 

Derby 

East   Haven 

Guilford 

Hamden 

Madison 

Meriden 


New  London 

Norwich 

Bozrah 

Colchester 

East    Lyme 

Franklin 

Griswold 

Groton 

Lebanon 

Ledyard 


Charles  Hopkins  Clark 
Robert  J.  Holmes 
Charles   M.  Jarvis 
William  Martin  Brown 
Noble  E.  Pierce 
E.  Samuel  Gillette 
Edward  H.  Sears 
Julius  G.  Dickinson 
Percy  S.   Bryant 
Howard  A.  Middleton 
Thompson  S.  Grant 
Amasa  A.  Redfield 
Henry  E.   Loomis 
William  C  Case* 
Theodore  M.  Maltbief 


Hartland  George  W.  Miller 

Manchester         Frank  W.  Cheney 
Marlborough      Frederick  Cooley 
New    Britain      Robert  J.  Vance 
Newington  George  E.  Churchill 

Plainville  Aquila  H.  Condell 

Rocky    Hill        Owen  R.  Havens 
Simsbury  Joseph  L.  Bartlett 

Southington        Marcus  H.  Holcomb 
South    WindsorLewis   Sperry 
Suffield  Charles  C.  Bissell 

West    HartfordWilliam   H.    Hall 
Wethersfield       Stephen  F.  Willard 
Windsor  D.  Ellsworth  Phelps 

Windsor    LocksThomas  L.  Healy 


NEW  HAVEN  COUNTY 


Norris  G.  Osborn 
Francis  P.  Guilfoile 
Denis  T.  Walsh 
Adna  D.  Warner 
Samuel  R.  Woodward 
Louis  A.  Fisk 
Alonzo  E.  Smith 
Daniel   E.  McMahon 
William  K.  Stevens 
Edward   Griswold 
James  H.  Webb 
John  H.  Meigs 
H.  Wales  Lines 


Middlebury 

Milford 

Naugatuck 

No.  Branford 

North  Haven 

Orange 

Oxford 

Prospect 

Seymour 

Southbury 

Wallingford 

Wolcott 

Woodbridge 


George   W.   Wallace 
Dumond   P.   Merwin 
John  H.  Whittemore 
George  L.  Ford 
Marcus  D.  Marks 
Samuel  J.  Bryant 
William  O.  Davis 
David  B.  Hotchkiss 
William  H.  H.  Woostei 
Plenry  B.  Russell 
John  B.  Kendrick 
Evelyn  M.  Upson 
G.  Halsted  Bishop 


NEW  LONDON  COUNTY 


Thomas  M.  Waller 
Frank  T.  Brown 
E.  Judson  Miner 
Harley  P.  Buell 
Edwin  C.  Chipman 
J.   Henry  King 
Arthur  M.   Brown 
Henry  L.  Bailey 
Isaac  Gillette 
William  I.  Allyn 
Waterford 


Lisbon 
Lyme 
Montville 
No.  Stonington 
Old    Lyme 
Preston 
Salem 
Sprague 
Stonington 
Voluntown 
Charles  A.  Gallup 


Calvin  D.  Bromley 
James  L.  Raymond 
Joseph  F.  Killeen 
James  F.   Brown 
Joseph  S.  Huntington 
George  A.  Frink 
Alvah  Morgan 
William  J.  Riley 
Frank  H.  Hinckley 
E.  Byron  Gallup 


Died  December  23,  1901. 


f   Elected  December  30,  1901. 


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FAIRFIELD  COUNTY 


Bridgeport 

Danbury 

Bethel 

Brookfield 

Darien 

Easton 

Fairfield 

Greenwich 

Huntington 

Monroe 

New  Canaan 


Daniel  Davenport 
Eugene  C.  Dempsey 
Howard  H.   Woodman 
Elmer  H.  Northrop 
Thaddeus  Bell 
Edgar  G.  Jennings 
John  H.  Perry 
R.  Jay  Walsh 
Sturges  Whitlock 
Edwin  C.  Shelton 
Benjamin  P.  Mead 
Wilton  H. 


New  Fairfield 
Newtown 
Norwalk 
Redding 
Ridgefield 
Sherman 
Stamford 
Stratford 
Trumbull 
Weston 
Westport 
E.  Chichester 


Homer  L.  Wanzer 
Charles  H.  Northrop 
Asa  B.  Woodward 
Jonathan  B.  Sanford 
William  O.  Seymour 
George  A.  Barnes 
Schuyler  Merritt 
Henry  P.  Stagg 
Ormel  Hall 
Frank  Gorham 
Rufus  Wakeman 


WINDHAM  COUNTY 

Windham  Eugene  S.  Boss  Hampton 

Putnam  Byron  D.  Bugbee  Killingly 

Ashford  Thomas  K.  Fitts  Plainfield 

Brooklyn  Henry  M.  Evans  Pomfret 

Canterbury  Levi  N.  Clark  Scotland 

Chaplin  William  J.  Groesbeck  Sterling 

Eastford  Monroe  F.  Latham  Thompson 


Woodstock         George  Austin  Bowen 


William  H.  Burnham 
Aurin  P.  Somes 
Edwin  Milner 
Thomas  O.  Elliott 
Gerald  Waldo 
Claramon  Hunt 
Randolph  H.  Chandler 


LITCHFIELD  COUNTY 


Litchfield 

Winchester 

New    Milford 

Barkhamsted 

Bethlehem 

Bridgewater 

Canaan 

Colebrook 

Cornwall 

Goshen 

Harwinton 

Kent 

Morris 


Charles  B.  Andrews 
Wellington  B.  Smith 
Charles  M.  Beach 
Hubert  B.  Case 
Abner  P.  Hayes 
Marcus  B.  Mallett 
John  H.  Belden 
Julian  H.   Smith 
Philo  M.  Kellogg 
Henry  G.  Wright 
Clarence  M.  Ely 
Irwin  J.  Beardsley 
Lyman  W.  Whittlesey 


New   Hartford 

Norfolk 

North    Canaan 

Plymouth 

Roxbury 

Salisbury 

Sharon 

Thomaston 

Torrington 

Warren 

Washington 

Watertown 

Woodbury 


John  Fox  Smith 
William  O'Connor 
Charles  W.  Camp 
Charles  H.  Smith 
George  R.  Crofut 
Donald  T.  Warner 
George  S.  Kirby 
Frank  W.  Etheridge 
Orsamus  R.  Fyler 
Noble  B.  Strong 
John  C.   Brinsmade 
Augustus  N.  Woolson 
Horace  D.  Curtiss 


MIDDLESEX  COUNTY 


Middletown 

Haddam 

Chatham 

Chester 

Clinton 

Cromwell 

Durham 


D.  Ward  Northrop 
George  M.  Clark 
William  N.  Markham 
Wilbur  A.  Brothwell 
Charles  A.  Pelton 
Edward  S.  Coe 
Frederic  P.  Hubbard 


East  Haddam 

Essex 

Killingworth 

Middlefield 

Old   Saybrook 

Portland 

Saybrook 


Albert  E.   Purple 
George  H.  Blake 
Lauren  L.  Nettleton 
Fred  W.  Terrill 
William  H.  Smith 
Asaph  H.  Hale 
Frederick  L'Hommediei 


Westbrook 


Theodore  D.  Post 


TOLLAND  COUNTY 

Tolland  Loren  Newcomb  Hebron 

Andover  Elliot  P.  Skinner  Mansfield 

Bolton  J.  White  Sumner  Somers 

Columbia  William  A.  Collins  Stafford 

Coventry  Alexander  S.  Hawkins  Union 

Ellington  Francis  M.  Charter  Vernon 


Marshall  Porter 
Ralph  W.  Storrs 
George  E.  Keeney 
Edwin  C.  Pinney 
Milton  H.  Kinney 
Charles  Phelps 


Willington 


William  H.  Hall 


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NAMES  OF  THOSE  PRESENT 

at  the 

GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  CENTENNIAL 

Capitol,  Hartford,  May  7,  1919. 


The  appended  list  of  State  Officers,  Senators  and  Representatives, 
who  attended  the  Centennial  was  compiled  from  the  registration  cards, 
signed  on  May  7th  at  the  Capitol.  Several  persons,  however,  failed  to 
sign  a  card  as  requested,  which  will  account  for  their  names  not  appear- 
ing in  this  list: 


1853 
Representative : 
Albert  L.  Hodge,  Roxbury. 

1863 
Representatives : 
Henry  E.  Hinman,  Harwinton. 
John    E.   Tryon,    Glastonbury. 

1864 

Representatives : 
Albert  L.   Hodge,   Roxbury. 
John    E.    Tryon,    Glastonbury. 

1865 
Representatives : 
William  Bulkeley,  Berlin. 
Albert  L.   Hodge,   Roxbury. 

1866 
Representative : 
Peter   Skiff,  Kent. 

1867 
Representative : 
Thomas  M.  Waller,  New  London. 

1868 
Representatives : 
Edward   B.   Bennett,   Hampton. 
James    N.    Loomis,    Granby. 
Thomas  M.  Waller,  New  London. 
Robert  R.  Wolcott,  Wethersfield. 

1869 
Representative : 
William  H.  Hill,  Redding. 


State   Officer 


1870 


Thomas  M.  Waller,  New  London, 
Secretary. 

Representatives : 

Joseph    N.    Cowles,    Norfolk. 
Almon   Day.   East   Haddam. 
Jasper   A.    Fitch,   Andover. 
Julius  W.  Knowlton,  Stratford. 
Horace  J.  Ward,  Hartland. 

1871 

Representatives : 

Julius  W.  Knowlton,  Stratford. 
Harvey    L.    Roberts,    Winchester. 
Charles  E.  Searls,  Thompson. 
Milo   P.  J.  Walker,  Union. 

1872 
Representatives : 
Cyrus  Avery,  Groton. 
Ezra   Briggs,   Voluntown. 
Dwight   S.  Case,  Barkhamsted. 
Jaspar   A.   Fitch,  Andover. 
H.  Wales  Lines,  Meriden. 
William  H.  Pond,  Milford. 
Leroy  A.    Smith,   Haddam. 
Thomas  M.  Waller,  New  London. 

1873 
Senator: 

Harvey    L.    Roberts,    Winchester. 

Representatives : 
William  G.  Anthony,  Scotland. 
Alonz6  W.   Burns,   Milford. 
Samuel  H.  Case,  Barkhamsted. 
Almon  Day,  East  Haddam. 
George  W.  Hurlburt,  Roxbury. 
Frederick   W.   S.  Ward,   Bolton. 


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Representatives : 

Richard  W.  Bacon,  Bethlehem. 
John  D.  Botelle,  Cromwell. 
Charles    M.    Joslyn,    Tolland. 
Charles  Page,  North  Branford. 

1875 
Representatives : 

John  H.  Beach,  Trumbull. 
Charles    F.    Brooker,   Torrington. 
Clarence   H.   Brown,   Wallingford. 
Albert  L.  Hodge,  Roxbury. 
William  H.  Kelsey,  Clinton. 
William  H.  Pond,  Milford. 
Albert  E.  Purple,  East  Haddam. 
Edward  S.  Roberts,  North  Canaan. 
Gideon    M.   Wakelee,    Huntington. 

1876 
Representatives: 
Samuel  G.  Davidson,  Bethany. 
E.   Byron  Gallup,   Voluntown. 
William  H.  Kelsey,  Clinton. 
John   P.   Lewis,   Farmington. 
John  W.   Norton,   Guilford. 
Thomas  M.  Waller,  New  London. 

1877 
Representatives : 

Henry  Atwater,  Derby. 
J.  Cleveland  Capen,  Bloomfield. 
Lucius  J.  Grant,  South  Windsor. 
Charles  E.  Hart,  New  Britain. 
John  H.  Perry,  Fairfield. 

1878 
Representatives : 
Eugene  S.  Belden,  Rocky  Hill. 
Hartwell  N.  Brainard,  Glastonbury. 
Jason   Bugbee,   Jr.,   Wellington. 
James  T.  Coogan,  Windsor  Locks. 
Henry  Davis,  Durham. 
Silas  W.  Fowler,  Durham. 
William  H.  Hall,  West  Hartford. 
Francis  H.  Parker,  East  Haddam. 
John  H.  Perry,  Fairfield. 
John  B.  Smith,  Sharon. 
Horace  A.   Stannard,  Norfolk. 

1879 
Representatives : 

Lucius  A.  Barber,  Hartford. 
Samuel  W.  Bradley,  Canaan. 
E.    Judson    Miner,    Bozrah. 
Frank  R.   Post,   Hebron. 
Everett  P.  Russell,  Somers. 
Leroy  A.  Smith,  Haddam. 
Grove  J.  Tuttle,  East  Haven. 

1880 
Senators : 
William  A.   Collins,   Columbia. 
H.  Wales  Lines,  Meriden. 


Representatives : 
Selah  G.  Blakeman,  Huntington. 
Andrew  J.  Bowen,  Eastford. 
Barton    Jacobs,    Thompson. 
Emerson  A.   Merriman,   Meriden. 
Joseph  M.  Merrow,  Mansfield. 
E.  Judson  Miner,  Bozrah. 
Frederick    L.    Nichols,    Wolcott. 
Francis  H.  Parker,  East  Haddam. 
A.  Heaton  Robertson,  New  Haven. 
Joseph  B.  Stetson,  Brooklyn. 


1881 
State   Officer: 
Charles    E.    Searls,   Thompson, 
Secretary. 

Senators : 
William  A.  Collins,  Columbia. 

E.  Buel  Root,  West  Hartford. 

Representatives : 
Henry  S.  Beers,  Brookfield. 

F.  Clarence  Bissell,  Hebron. 
Percy  S.  Bryant,   East  Hartford. 
Geo.  F.  Douglass,  New  Hartford. 
Thomas  O.  Elliott,   Pomfret. 
Lucius  H.  Fuller,  Putnam. 
David  H.  Judd,  Bethlehem. 
James  Lawton,  Middletown. 
Emerson    A.    Merriman,    Meriden. 
George   F.   Morris,   Woodbury. 
Amos  Northrop,  Bridgewater. 
John  H.  Perry,  Fairfield. 
Theodore  D.  Pond,  Brooklyn. 
Sheldon  B.  Thorpe,  North  Haven. 
Joseph  S.  Warner,  Lebanon. 
Gideon   H.  Welch,  Torrington. 
George  C.   F.  Williams,   Cheshire. 

1882 
State  Officer : 

Charles    E.    Searls,   Thompson, 
Secretary. 

Representatives : 
Samuel   W.   Bradley,    Canaan. 
George  H.  Clark,  Hartland. 
Thomas   O.   Elliott,   Pomfret. 
Lucius   H.   Fuller,   Putnam. 
John  A.  Haling,   Marlborough. 
James   T.   Hubbell,  Wilton. 
James  Lawton,  Middletown. 
George  W.  Merrow,  Mansfield. 
Charles  H.  Owen,  Manchester. 
J.   Frank  Pratt,   Southington. 
A.  Heaton  Robertson,  New  Haven. 
E.  Buel  Root,  West  Hartford. 
Howard  W.  Taylor,  Danbury. 
Asahel    J.    Wright,    Killingly 
William  A.  Wright,   Branford. 


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i883 
State   Officer: 

Thomas  M.  Waller,  New  London, 
Governor. 

Representatives : 
Charles  J.  Abel,  Lebanon. 
Fredus  M.  Case,  Windsor. 
George  G.  Durant,  Bethel. 
James  T  Hubbell,  Wilton. 
Daniel  N.  Morgan,  Bridgeport. 
John   S.   Perkins,   Salisbury. 
J.  Frank  Pratt,  Southington. 
George   P.   Savage,   Cromwell. 
N.  Douglas  Sevin,  Norwich. 
Henry  G.  Viets,   Granby. 
John  T.  Walsh,  Middletown. 
William  A.  Wright,   Branford. 

1884 
State   Officer: 
Thomas  M.  Waller,  New  London, 
Governor. 

Representatives : 
Thomas  B.  Atwater,    Southington. 
Anson  W.  Bristol,  Canton. 
Alfred    U.    Charter,    Ellington. 
John  Coats,  Windsor  Locks. 
Aquilla   H.   Condell,   Plainville. 
Lorenzo   D.   Converse,   Somers. 
Henry    Fields,    Newington. 
Judson  E.  Francis,  Durham. 
William  H.   Golden,  Meriden. 
George  O.  Higby,   Meriden. 
Samuel  B.  Home,  Winchester. 
Clinton  T.  Inslee,  East  Windsor. 
Albert  G.  Kneeland,  Lebanon. 
Oscar  A.  Leonard,  Tolland. 
Wesley  A.  Miller,  Har.land. 
John   W.   Norton,   Guilford. 
Orrin   W.   Oles,   Colebrook. 
Sherman  Sanford,  Farmington. 
Albert    N.    Stillman,    Hartland. 
Frank   H.   Thomson,   Bethlehem. 
Irvin  N.  Tibbals,  Chatham. 
J.  Herman  Tubbs,  Old  Lyme. 

1885 
Senators : 
William    H.    Golden,    Meriden. 
Daniel  N.  Morgan,  Bridgeport. 
A.  Heaton  Robertson,  New  Haven. 

Representatives: 

Samuel  W.  Bradley,  Canaan. 
Thomas   P.  Bristol,   Brookfield. 
Irving  W.  Charter,  East  Haddam. 
Albert  B.  Dibble,  Wetsbrook. 
George  W.   Harris,   Wethersfield. 
Edward  S.  Hawley,  Huntington. 
Clinton  T.  Inslee,  East  Windsor. 
Charles  M.  Joslyn,  Hartford. 
Charles  N.  Loomis,  Bolton. 
Charles   Phelps,  Vernon. 


Mayo   S.    Purple,    Chatham. 
Levi    M.    Reed,    Union. 
Frederick  H.  Thomson,  Bethlehem. 
Robert  C.  Usher,  Plainville. 
Olin  Wheeler,   South  Windsor. 

1886 
Senators : 
William  H.  Golden,   Meriden. 
Daniel  N.  Morgan,  Bridgeport. 
A.  Heaton  Robertson,  New  Haven. 

Representatives : 
G.    C.    Beckwith,    New    Hartford. 
Charles   E   Blodgett,    Portland. 
Frederick  J.  Booth,  Easton. 
Hart  E.  Buell,  Hebron. 
Wheeler  M  Case,  Simsbury. 
Sheldon  L.   Catlin,   Harwinton. 
Michael    Connery,    Redding. 
Charles    W.    Hodge,    Roxbury. 
Thomas  H.  Kehoe,  New  Britain. 
Charles    F.    Lincoln,    Andover. 
William  J.  Munson,  Watertown. 
Gilbert   T.    Nettleton,   Durham. 
George  F.  Pardee,   Cheshire. 
Edgar   L.    Pond,   Plymouth. 
Willis   F.   Robinson,   Branford. 
Henry  B.   Russell,   Southbury. 
Charles  E.  Searls,  Thompson. 
Arthur  J.  Silliman,  East  Haddam. 
John  H.  Smart,  East  Windsor. 
Grove  J.  Tuttle,  East  Haven. 
Edgar    G.    Wallace,    Prospect. 
Hubert   E.   Warner,   Hamden. 
John  L.  Wilson,  Suffield. 

1887 
Representatives : 
John  M.  Allen,  Woodstock. 
Richard  W.  Bacon,  Washington. 
Edwin    R.    Brown,    Cheshire. 
Owen   E.   Case,   Barkhamsted. 
Wallace  Case,  Barkhamsted. 
John    Clarke,    Lebanon. 
William    H.    Cowles,    Southington. 
John  A.  Deming,  Colebrook. 
Martin    V.    B.    Dunham,    Fairfield. 
Frank  D.  Fenton,  Mansfield. 
William  Foulds,  Manchester. 
Vine  R.  Franklin,  Brooklyn. 
D.  Lynsted  Gates,  East  Lyme. 
Henry   Grant,   South   Windsor. 
William    Green,    Bethel. 
Tohn  C.  Hawkins,  Griswold. 
"Edward    S.   Hawley,   Huntington. 
Henry  E.   Hinman,  Harwinton 
Hiram  Hurlburt,  West  Hartford. 
Clinton  T.  Inslee,  East  Windsor. 
Thomas  H.  Kehoe,  New  Britain. 
Dietrich    E.    Loewe,    Danbury. 
Alfred    E.    Phelps,    Glastonbury. 
Oliver  A.  Raymond,  East  Haddam. 
John  A.  Reeve,  Burlington. 


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Wilson  C.  Reynolds,  East  Haddam. 
Edwin    G.    Smith,    Chester. 
Charles  O.  Thompson,  Pomfret. 
George  W.  Tingley,  Stonington. 
J.  Eugene  Tucker,  Columbia. 
Gideon  H.  Welch,  Torrington. 

1889 
State   Officer: 
Morgan    G.    Bulkeley,    Hartford, 
Governor. 

Senators : 
Joseph  N.  Cowles,  Norfolk. 
Lucius   H.   Fuller,   Putnam. 
William  B.  Sprague,  Andover. 

Representatives : 

Sessions   L.   Adams,    Plainfield. 
Arthur  P.  Atwood,  Norfolk. 
Wallace   K.   Bacon,   Middletown. 
Samuel  J.   Bryant,   Orange. 
Frank  T.  Buell,  Clinton. 
Eugene  W.  Chaffee,  East  Haddam. 
J.   Carl   Converse,   Stafford. 
Daniel   P.   Cooley,   Granby. 
Willard  A.  Cowles,  Torrington. 
Theophilus  Eaton,  North  Haven. 
Wallace  T.  Fenn,  Wethersfield. 
Myron    Heck,    Union. 
Albert  E.  Holcomb,  Windsor. 
Frederick   W.   Holden,    Derby. 
Herman  W.  Huke,  Torrington. 
Olin    E.    Hunt,    Bolton. 
Andrew  F.  Jones,  New  Canaan. 
John  N.  Lewis,  Voluntown. 
Noble   E.   Lord,    Hebron. 
Frank  C.  Lummis,  Chaplin. 
Harry  T.   Miner,   Vernon. 
Charles   S.   Munger,   Essex. 
George  B.  Munger,  Madison. 
Thomas  W.  O'Keefe,  Middletown. 
Steven  T.  Palmer,  Huntington. 
William  A.  Parsons,  Durham. 
John  H.  Perry,  Fairfield. 
Frederick  A.  Pinney,  Bloomfield. 
Edwin  M.  Ripley,  Farmington. 
Edward  S.  Roberts,  North  Canaan. 
Henry  F.  Tracy,  Enfield. 
Edson    A.    Welch,    Windsor. 
Samuel  P.  Willard,  Colchester. 
Isaac  Wolf,   New   Haven. 

1891 
State   Officer: 
Morgan    G.    Bulkeley,    Hartford, 
Governor. 

Senators : 

Frederick   W.    Holden,    Ansonia. 
Noble  E.   Pierce,   Bristol. 


Representatives : 

Wilbert  N.  Austin,  Plymouth. 
Heman  O.  Averill,  Washington. 
Thomas    F.    Bradley,    Newtown. 
William  A.  Braun,  Danbury. 
Wilbur  A.   Brothwell,   Chester. 
Frank  T.  Buell,  Clinton. 
George   W.  Buell,   Marlborough. 
Alonzo  W.  Burns,  Milford. 
John    B.    Cannon,    Suffield. 
Henry  Clapp,   Hampton. 
Andrew  T.  J.  Clarke,  Canterbury. 
Charles    Coffey,    Granby. 
Edwin  J.  Crandall,  Tolland 
William    Crane,    Ellington 
John  A.  Deming,  Colebrook. 
Theophilus  Eaton,  North  Haven. 
Thomas  O.  Elliott,  Pomfret. 
Walter  Fitzmaurice,  New  London. 
William  A.  Foster,  East  Granby. 
Henry  F.  Gibson,  Woodbury. 
Andrew    M.    Grant,    Mansfield. 
William   H.   Hill,    Redding. 
Edmund    A.    Hoskins,    Simsbury. 
Edgar  G.  Jennings,  Easton. . 
Andrew  F.  Jones,  New  Canaan. 
Isaac  S   Knapp,  New  Fairfield. 
John    N.    Lewis,   Voluntown. 
E.  Newton  Loveland,  Wethersfield. 
David  B.  Mansfield,  Harwinton. 
Adrian   J.    Muzzy,   Bristol. 
John  L.  Saxe,  Waterbury. 
Charles   H.    Smith,   Groton. 
John   N.   Walbridge,  Tolland. 

1893 
Senators : 

Charles    F.    Brooker,   Torrington. 
Charles   Coffey,   Granby. 
Marcus  H.  Holcomb,  Southington. 
Frederick  W.  Holden,  Ansonia. 
Daniel  N.  Morgan,  Bridgeport. 
Charles    Phelps,    Vernon. 
Noble   E.    Pierce,   Bristol. 

Representatives : 
Miles  H.  Aborn,   Ellington. 
Leslie  E.  Adams,  Wethersfield. 
William  C.  Barhite,  Ridgefield. 
J.   Ely   Beebe,   Lyme. 
Lucius   W.   Bigelow,   Simsbury. 
Charles   S.   Birge,   Harwinton. 
Minor   Blackman,    Prospect. 
William    A.    Braun,    Danbury. 
John   C.   Brinsmade,   Washington. 
Wilbur    A.    Brothwell,    Chester. 
Lewis    O.    Catlin,    Harwinton. 
George  F.   Chapin,  Enfield. 
Chester   H.    Clark,    Durham 
Luman    C.    Colt,    Winchester. 
E.  Herbert  Corttis,  Thompson. 
Sidney    W.    Crofut,    Killingly. 
Timothy  M.  Crowley,  Meriden. 
Thomas    E.    Duncan,   Windsor. 


15; 


Thomas   O.  Elliott,   Pomfret. 
Walter  Fitzmaurice,  New  London. 
Carl  A.  Green,  Granby. 
William   H.   Hall,    Willington. 
Owen   R.   Havens,   Rocky   Hill. 
Oliver  A.  Hiscox,  Woodstock. 
Charles  E.  House,  Manchester. 
Charles    K.    Hunt,    Winchester. 
George  L.  James,  Mansfield. 
Andrew  F.  Jones,  New  Canaan. 
Edwin    O.    Keeler,    Norwalk. 
George    Keeler,    Cheshire. 
Isaac  S.  Knapp,  New  Faifireld. 
G.  Philip  Lecrenier,  East  Haddam. 
E.  Newton  Loveland,  Wethersfield. 
George    R.    McKenna,    Stonington. 
Joseph    Pierpont,    North   Haven. 
William    S.    Randall,    Huntington. 
Homer  E.  Remington,  Windham. 
John    L.    Saxe,    Waterbury. 
Henry    A.    Spafard,    Hebron. 
Edw.   P.    Spencer,   New   Hartford. 
William    B.    Stoddard,    Milford. 
Dwight  B.  Tiffany,  Winchester 
Frank    H.    Tillinghast,    Plainfield. 
Grove   J.    Tuttle,    East    Haven. 
Horace    J.    Ward,    Winchester. 
Frank    L.    Wilcox,    Berlin. 


Senators : 


1895 


Heman  O.  Averill,  Washington. 
Charles   Coffey,    Granby. 
Johnson   D.   Dayton,   Derby. 
Edward    E.    Fuller,    Tolland. 
Representatives: 
Charles  L.  Backus,  Andover. 
George  O.  Balch,  Ashford. 
Andrew   J.    Bowen,    Windham. 
Edward  H.  Brockett,  Simsbury. 
Cqnrad    Buckingham,    Fairfield. 
H.  Hopkins  Catlin,  Harwinton. 
William    C.    Cheney,    Manchester. 
Andrew    M.    Clark,    Cornwall. 
Charles    H.    Clark,    Southington. 
J.    Carl    Converse,    Stafford. 
E.    Herbert    Corttis,    Thompson. 
Enock    A.    Douglas,    Sterling. 
William   F.   Downer,   Hamden. 
John    A.    DuBon,    Windsor. 
Robert  O.  Eaton,  North  Haven. 
Charles  F.  Froidevaux,  Avon. 
Merritt   E.    Gallup,   Ashford. 
Charles    C.   Georgia,    Farmington. 
Charles  O.  Gillette,  Haddam. 
Elizur    S.    Goodrich,    Wethersfield. 
Charles  W.  Granniss,  East  Haven. 
Charles    A.   Grav,   Ledyard. 
George    H.    Hall,    Bristol. 
William  H.  Hall,  Willington. 
Edbert  D.  Hammond.  Cromwell. 
Hiram  E.  Hodge,  Marlborough. 
George    C.    Hopkins,    Warren. 
Henry  C.   Hull,   Clinton. 


Silas   E.   Jeralds,    Cheshire. 
George    T.    Johnson,    Norfolk. 
Andrew   F.   Jones,    New   Canaan. 
Edwin  O.  Keeler,  Norwalk. 
Charles   Keller,    Bridgeport. 
Samuel  C.  Kingman,  Washington. 
Perkins   L.    Lathrop,    Coventry. 
John   P.   Lewis,   Farmington. 
Josiah  J.  Linsley,  North  Branford. 
Everett  E.  Lord,  Killingworth. 
Appleton  Main,  Preston. 
Lyman    A.    Mills,    Middlefield. 
David   M.   Mitchell,   Southbury. 
William  H.  Newton,  Wallingford. 
George   W.   Ogden,   Wilton. 
Carlton    E.    Osborn,    Hartland. 
Benjamin    Page,    Meriden. 
Francis   H.   Robbins,  Wethersfield. 
Alberto  T.  Roraback,  No.  Canaan. 
Willard  A.  .Roraback,  Torrington. 
George  W.  Rouse,  Voluntown. 
Jesse    W.    Ruick,    Granby. 
Elford   C.   Russell,   Orange. 
Gould  A.  Shelton,  Huntington. 
Charles    H.    Smith,    Groton. 
David    L.    Somers,    Woodbury. 
George  L.  Talmadge,  Prospect. 
Andrew   Turnbull,   New   Britain. 
James    P.    Vaill,    Goshen. 
Lawrence  VanAlstyne,   Sharon. 
Fred    O.    Vinton,    Mansfield. 
Edgar   M.   Warner,    Putnam. 
William    J.    Warner,    Hebron. 
Charles  J   Welch,  Windsor. 
Francis   H   Whiton,   Manchester. 
Frederick  W.  Yutzler,  Cornwall. 

1897 
State   Officer: 

Charles  Phelps,  Vernon,  Secretary. 
Senators : 
J.   Carl   Converse,   Stafford. 
Elizur    S.    Goodrich,    Wethersfield. 
Edwin  O  Keeler,   Norwalk. 
John  N.  Lewis,  Voluntown. 
Charles  G.  R.  Vinal,  Middletown. 

Representatives : 
Henry  E.  Baldwin,  Woodbridge. 
Willard  V.  Barber,  Torrington. 
John   H.   Barnes,    Norwich. 
Ralph   Beers,   North   Branford. 
Charles    S.    Bradley,    Branford. 
D.    Luther    Briggs,    Middletown. 
Edgar  B.    Case,   Hartland. 
Anson  B.   Clinton,  North  Haven. 
John   H.   Fish,   Newington. 
Charles   B.   Frisbie,   Cromwell. 
William   G.    Gallagher,    Meriden. 
Robert    A.    Griffing,    Hartford. 
Robert   S.   Griswold,  Wethersfield. 
George    H.    Hall,    Bristol. 
William    H.    Hall,    Willington. 


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Robert  J.  Holmes,  Avon. 
Henry   C.    Hull,    Clinton. 
Joseph  G.  Hyatt,  Westport. 
Charles  S.  Hyde,  Brooklyn. 
James    H.   Hyde,   Franklin. 
Edson    B.   Lockwood,    Watertown. 
Albert    H.    Lyman,    Andover. 
David    B.    Mansfield,    Harwinton. 
E.  Judson   Miner,   Bozrah. 
Asahel  W.  Mitchell,  Woodbury. 
Herbert   J.   Moss,    Cheshire. 
Adrian    J.    Muzzy,    Bristol. 
Charles  J.  Parker,  New  Britain. 
Alexander   T.    Pattison,   Simsbury. 
Charles  S.  Peck,  Danbury. 
Charles    H.    Ricketts,    Somers. 
Alberto    T.    Roraback,    Canaan. 
Henry   T.    Sellew,    Chatham. 
Charles   F.   Shepard,    Chatham. 
Leander  H.   Snow,  Eastford. 
Lester   C.   Strong,   Winchester. 
Stephen  A.  Talmadge,  Prospect. 
Charles    A.    Thompson,    Ellington. 
Charles   O.  Tryon.   Glastonbury. 
Howard    N.    Wakeman,    Fairfield. 
Charles  D.  Way,  Hebron. 
Morris  C.  Webster,  New  Britain. 
Francis    H.   Whiton,   Manchester. 
Walter  L.   Wilder,   Canton. 

1899 
State  Officers: 

Lyman  A.  Mills,  Middlefield,  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor. 
Charles  Phelps,  Vernon,  Attorney- 
General. 

Senators : 
John  H.  Barnes,  Norwich. 
Elizur  S.  Goodrich,  Wethersfield. 
William  H.  Hall,  Willington. 
Edwin  O.  Keeler,  Norwalk. 
Asahel  W.  Mitchell,  Woodbury. 
Adrian  J.  Muzzy,  Bristol. 
Charles  G.  R.  Vinal,  Middletown. 
Gideon  H.  Welch,  Torrington. 

Representatives : 

Wilbert  N.  Austin,  Plymouth. 
John  H.  Belden,  Canaan. 
Charles  S.  Bradley,  Branford. 
Ezra   Briggs,  Voluntown. 
Elliott  B.  Bronson,  Winchester. 
George  S.  Carey,  Scotland. 
William  B.  Carey,  No.  Stonington. 
Samuel  H.  Case,  Barkhamsted. 
George  E.  Churchill,  Newington. 
Charles  H.  Clark,  Southington. 
Charles  S.  Curtiss,  Woodbury. 
Homer  P.  Deming,  Colebrook. 
John  O.  Enders,  West  Hartford. 
Alfred  N.  Filley,  Bloomfield. 
James  S.  Forbes,  East  Hartford. 


Harrison  B.  Freeman,  Hartford. 
David  N.  Gaines,  Hartland. 
Winslow  B.  Gallup,  Chaplin. 
Charles  C.  Godfrey,  Bridgeport. 
Andrew  Gordon,  Enfield. 
Albert  A.   Gorham,   Redding. 
E.  Morton  Granger,  East  Windsor. 
Charles  W.  Granniss,  East  Haven. 
Robert  W.  Green,  Brookfield. 
George  A.  Harmon,  Suffield. 
Charles  R.  Hathaway,  Manchester. 
Edwin  W.  Higgins,  Norwich. 
Frederick  A.  Hunt,  Columbia. 
Luther  J.  Leavitt,  Woodstock. 
John  H.  Light,  Norwalk. 
William  E.  Luke,  Danbury. 
Edward  H.  McCall,  Lebeanon. 
Wilbur  S.  Miller,  Hartland. 
Herbert  J.  Mills,  Bristol. 
Robert  C.  Mitchell,  Southbury. 
Dwight  F.  Newton,  Granby. 
D.  Walter  Patten,  North  Haven. 
Almon  B.  Phelps,  East  Granby. 
Frank  R.  Post,  Hebron. 
Gilbert  S.  Raymond,  Preston. 
Fayette  W.  Rossiter,  Guilford. 
Powell  G.  Seeley,  Washington. 
Andrew  Slater,  Farmington. 
Llewellyn  P.  Smith,  Lebanon. 
Charles  S.  Spaulding,  Cheshire. 
Albert  A.  Stone,  Watertown. 
Edwin  O.  Sumner,  Eastford. 
Charles  A.  Thompson,  Ellington. 
Fred  H.  Thompson,  Bethlehem. 
Francis   L.   Upham,   Union. 
Fred  O.  Vinton,  Mansfield. 
J.  Raymond  Warren,  Lyme. 
Z.  Silas  Wellman,  Clinton. 
George  A.  Williams,  Killingly. 
William  R.  Wood,  South  Windsor. 
James  P.  Woodruff,  Litchfield. 
Fayette  L.  Wright,  Pomfret. 


1901 

State  Officers : 

Henry  H.  Gallup,  Norwich,  Treas- 
urer. 

Edwin  O.  Keeler,  Norwalk,  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor. 

Charles  Phelps,  Vernon,  Attorney- 
General. 

Charles  G.  R.  Vinal,  Middletown, 
Secretary. 

Senators : 
Wilbur  A.  Brothwell,  Chester. 
Elizur  S.  Goodrich,  Wethersfield. 
Andrew  Gordon,  Enfield. 
Edgar  L.  Pond,  Plymouth. 
Charles  A.  Thompson,  Ellington. 
Fayette  L.  Wright,   Pomfret. 


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Representatives : 

Charles  G.  Allyn,  Hebron. 
Charles  W.  Bates,  East  Granby. 
John  H.  Belden,  Canaan. 
George  E.  Bicknell,  Meriden. 
Harvey  P.  Bissell,  Ridgefield. 
William  J.  Brew,  Newtown. 
Charles  R.  Buell,  Columbia. 
John  P.  Callahan,  Branford. 
Levi  N.  Clark,  Canterbury. 
Charles  J.  Conrad,   Huntington. 
Charles  C.  Cook,  West  Hartford. 
Willis  Covell,  Pomfret. 
S.  Hart  Culver,  Seymour. 
Henry  H.  Davenport,   Pomfret. 
Charles  H.  Dawley,  Colchester. 
John  A.  Foster,  Stafford. 
Harrison  B.  Freeman,  Hartford. 
Francis   L.    Griswold,   Somers. 
William  H.  Hall,  Simsbury. 
Edward  P.  Hazard,  Sharon. 
Williarn  H.  Hill,  Redding. 
Floyd  F.  Hitchcock,  Woodbury. 
Samuel  V.  Hubbard,  Cromwell. 
Arthur  E.  Humphrey,  Simsbury. 
Frederick  G.  Humphrey,  Canton. 
Oliver  C.  Jennings,  Fairfield. 
George  C.  Kellogg,  New  Hartford. 
Ned  E.  Kendall,  Granby. 
Albert  B.  Landon,  Salisbury. 
Henry    Lee,    Bridgeport. 
Charles  N.  LeGeyt,  Barkhamsted. 
John  H.  Light,  Norwalk. 
Howard  A.  Middleton,  E.  Windsor. 
Benjamin  I.  Miller,  Avon. 
Frank  W.  Morey,  Ashford. 
Alson   G.  Morris,  Goshen. 
George  F.  Morris,  Woodbury. 
William  O'Connor,  Norfolk. 
Charles  Page,  North  Branford. 
Arthur  E.   Parmelee,  Killingworth. 
Halsey  B.  Philbrick,  Hartford. 
Azel  R.  Race,  Franklin. 
Joel  H.  Reed,  Stafford. 
Frank  Roberts,  East  Hartford. 
William  B.  Roe,  Brookfield. 
Eugene  A.  Rogers,  Barkhamsted. 
T.  Macdonough  Russell,  Middlet'n. 
Sherman  Sanford,  Farmington. 
Robert  Scoville,  Salisbury. 
Leslie  C.  Seymour,  Windsor  Locks. 
Andrew  N.  Shepard,  Portland. 
Frederick  A.   Stoddard,  Litchfield. 
E.  Irving  Stone,  Bethlehem. 
William  H.  Taylor,  Putnam. 
Henry    E.    Terrell,    Cheshire. 
Rollin  U.  Tyler,  Haddam. 
Edgar  G.  Wallace,  Prospect. 
James  F.  Walsh,  Greenwich. 
George  N.  Webster,  Burlington. 
Stephen  F.  Willard,  Wethersfield. 
Henry  H.  Willes,  Vernon. 
Robert  J.  Woodruff,  Orange. 


1902 

(Constitutional  Convention.) 
Officers : 

John  H.  Perry,  Fairfield,  Vice- 
President. 

Thomas  M.  Waller,  New  London, 
Vice-President. 

Delegates : 
William  I.  Allyn,  Ledyard. 
John  H.  Belden,  Canaan. 
John  C.  Brinsmade,  Washington. 
Wilbur  A.  Brothwell,  Chester. 
Percy  S.  Bryant,  East  Hartford. 
Samuel  J.  Bryant,  Orange. 
George  E.  Churchill,  Newington. 
Levi  N.  Clark,  Canterbury. 
Edward  S.  Coe,  Cromwell. 
William  A.  Collins,  Columbia. 
Thomas  O.  Elliott,  Pomfret. 
•  Henry  M.  Evans,   Brooklyn. 
E.  Byron  Gallup,  Voluntown. 
William  H.  Hall,  Willington. 
Wm.  H.  Hall,  West  Hartford. 
Marcus  H.  Holcomb,  Southington. 
Robert  J.  Holmes,  Avon. 
Mayro   Keeney,  Somers. 
George  S.  Kirby,  Sharon. 
Freder'k  L'Hommedieu,   Saybrook. 
H.  Wales  Lines,  Meriden. 
Howard  A.  Middleton,  E.  Windsor. 
Noble  E.  Pierce,  Bristol. 
Henry  B.  Russell,  Southbury. 
Jonathan  B.  Sanford,  Redding. 
Gerald  Waldo,  Scotland. 
Howard  H.  Woodman,  Bethel. 

1903 
State  Officers: 

Henry  H.  Gallup,  Norwich,  Treas- 
urer. 

Charles  G.  R.  Vinal,  Middletown, 
Secretary. 

Senators : 

Nelson  J.  Ayling,  Norwich. 
William  P.  Bailey,  Bethel. 
Charles  C.  Cook,  West  Hartford. 
Thomas  F.  Noone,  Vernon. 
Charles  Page,  North  Branford. 
Alexander  T.  Pattison,  Simsbury. 
James  F.  Walsh,  Greenwich. 
Frank  L.  Wilcox,  Berlin  . 
Rollin  S.  Woodruff,  New  Haven. 

Representatives : 
Thomas  P.  Aitkin,  Manchester. 
Alexander  Arnott,   Manchester. 
William  C.  Backus,  Windham. 
Frank  H.  Baker,  Stafford. 
Henry  L.  Beach,  Bristol. 
Alfred  S.  Bennett,  Cheshire. 
George  E.  Bicknell,  Meriden. 


155 


Elliott  L.  Bidwell,  Saybrook. 
Frank  E.  Blakeman,  Stratford. 
George  H.  Bradford,  Montville. 
John  Bransfield,  Portland. 
Charles  S.  Briggs,  Lebanon. 
Theodore  L.  Bristol,  Ansonia. 
Lee  L.  Brockway,  Lyme. 
David  A.  Brown,  Tolland. 
Elton  W.  Buell,  Hebron. 
Edgar  D.  Bunnell,  Hartland. 
Orville  B.  Burton,  Trumbull. 
Owen  E.  Case,  Barkhamsted. 
Minotte  E.  Chatfield,  New  Haven. 
J.  Howell  Conklin,  Chatham. 
Wallace  Dann,  Norwalk. 
Frank  Driggs,  Barkhamsted. 
Fred  B.  Eaton,  Mansfield. 
James  H.  Elliott,  Harwinton. 
Joseph  H.  Elliott,  Pomfret. 
Henry  M.  Evans,   Brooklyn. 
Charles  T.  Gregory,  Wilton. 
Charles  C.  Harris,  Wethersfield. 
Floyd  F.  Hitchcock,  Woodbury. 
William  Hohbein,  Burlington. 
Arthur  W.  Howard,  Wethersfield. 
Edward  L.  Hutchinson,  Andover. 
Charles  S.  Hyde,  Canterbury. 
Fessenden  L.  Ives,  Goshen. 
Stephen  E.  Jennings,  Saybrook. 
Mayro  Keeney,   Somers. 
George  S.  Kirby,  Sharon. 
Henry  N.   LeFebvre,   Avon. 
Albert    B.    Landon,   Salisbury. 
James  N.  Loomis,  Granby. 
James  R.  Mead,  Greenwich. 
Isaac  F.  Miles,  New  Britain. 
John  B.  Parker,  Windsor. 
Lovel  D.  Parmelee,  Killingworth. 
Edward  H.  Persons,  Winchester. 
David  N.  Porter,  Thompson. 
Henry  J.  Potter,  Woodstock. 
Edward  L.  Reidy,  Winchester. 
George  H.  Robertson,  Coventry. 
Alva  F.  Sayles,  Sterling. 
Geo.  F.  Scarborough,  W.  Hartford. 
Robert  Scoville,  Salisbury. 
Leslie  C.  Seymour,  Windsor  Locks. 
J.  Arthur  Sherwood,  Easton. 
Edwin  T.  Smith,  Hebron. 
George  W.  Smith,  Milford. 
Irving  N.  Tibbals,  East  Haddam. 
William  H.  Wakelee,  Southbury. 
J.  Raymond  Warren,  Lyme. 
Albert  B.  Wells,  Granby. 
E.  Stanley  Wells,  Newington. 
Andrew  G.  Williams,  Pomfret. 
James  P.  Woodruff,  Litchfield. 

1905 

State  Officers : 
Theodore    Bodenwein,    New    Lon- 
don, Secretary. 


Asahel  W.  Mitchell,  Woodbury, 
Comptroller. 

James  F.  Walsh,  Greenwich,  Treas- 
urer. 

Rollin  S.  Woodruff,  New  Haven, 
Lieutenant-Governor. 

Senators : 
William  P.  Bailey,  Bethel. 
Frank  H.  Baker,  Stafford. 
George  E.  Bicknell,  Meriden. 
Minotte  E.  Chatfield,  New  Haven. 
Patrick  McGovern,  Hartford. 
Alexander  T.  Pattison,  Simsbury. 
Finton  J.  Phelan,  Waterbury. 
John  F.  Shanley,  New  Haven. 

Representatives : 
Howard  O.  Allen,  East  Windsor. 
William  I.  Allyn,  Ledyard. 
Arthur  A.  Bailey,  Windsor. 
Alfred  S.  Bennett,  Cheshire. 
Daniel  D.  Bidwell,  East  Hartford. 
Frank  B.  Bishop,  Madison. 
William  S.  Bishop,  Andover. 
Alfred  L.  Burdick,  Westbrook. 
John  A.  Chappuis,  Warren. 
Frank  Cheney,  Jr.,  Manchester. 
Charles  H.  Clark,  Southington. 
Walter  H.  Clark,  Hartford. 
Francis  M.  Coe,  Litchfield. 
Elbert  M.  Cushman,  Granby. 
Frank  W.  Dakin,  Sharon. 
Frank  O.  Davis,  Pomfret. 
Everard  W.  Day,  Chatham. 
James  H.  Day,  Old  Saybrook. 
Jerome  A.  Downs,  Bethany. 
Thomas  O.  Elliott,  Pomfret. 
John  O.  Fox,  Putnam. 
Charles  F.  Froidevaux,  Avon. 
Frank  W.  Fuller,  Marlborough. 
Olin  E.  Gibbs,  Norfolk. 
Edward  D.  Gillette,  Easton. 
E  Samuel  Gillette,  Burlington. 
Robert  W.  Green,  Brookfield. 
Arthur  H.  Griswold,  Wethersfield. 
Charles  A.  Griswold,  W.  Hartford.. 
William  H.  Hall,  Willington. 
Owen  R.  Havens,  Rocky  Hill. 
William  L.  Higgins,  Coventry. 
William  H.  Hill,  Redding. 
Marcus  H.  Holcomb,  Southington. 
Ward  G.  Holman,  Eastford. 
C.  Albert  Honold,  Barkhamsted. 
Ernest  T.  Huke,  Torrington. 
Arthur  J.  Hull,  Monroe. 
Joseph  G.  Hyatt,  Westport. 
Charles  S.  Hyde,  Canterbury. 
Milton   C.  Isabel,   Ansonia. 
Elmer  Jackson,  Wilton. 
Mayro  Keeney,  Somers. 
Frank  J.  Kilborn,  Washington. 
Edward  W.  Kneen,  Huntington. 


156 


John  M.  Larned,  Stafford. 
Henry  Lee,  Bridgeport. 
Mortimer  M.  Lee,  Norwalk. 
Frederick  L.  Lehr,  New  Haven. 
Samuel  D.  Loper,  Sharon. 
James  Lowry,  Brooklyn. 
William  Marvin,  Lyme. 
E.  Allen  Moore,  New  Britain. 
Angus  Park,  Sprague. 
Freeman  F.  Patten,  Stafford. 
James  A.  Perry,  Milford. 
Marvin  Pierce,  Harwinton. 
David  N.  Porter,  Thompson. 
Hubert  F.  Potter,  North  Haven. 
Levi  M.  Reed,  Union. 
Edward  L.  Reidy,  Winchester. 
Albert  C.  Roberts,  Salisbury. 
William  C.  Robinson,  Columbia. 
George  L.  Rockwell,  Ridgefield. 
Frederick  H.  Rolf,  Guilford. 
Frederick  A.  Scott,  Plymouth. 
C.   C.   Shannon,   Bridgewater 
George  W.  Smith,  Milford. 
Calvin  A.  Snyder,  No.  Stonington. 
Royal  K.  Southwick,  Cornwall. 
Correll  A.  Spencer,  New  Hartford. 
Adelbert  H.  Stevens,  Killingworth. 
Lewellyn  J.  Storrs,  Mansfield. 
Marvin  H.  Tanner,  Winchester. 
Robert  C.  Usher,  Plainville. 
Charles  F.  Wanger,  Salisbury. 
Eugene   Ward,    Roxbury. 
C.  Daniel  Way,  Hebron. 
William  H.  Webster,  Berlin. 


1907 
State  Officers: 

Theodore  Bodenwein,  New  Lon- 
don, Secretary. 

Marcus  H.  Holcomb,  Southington, 
Attorney-General. 

Freeman  F.  Patten,  Stafford, 
Treasurer. 

Rollin  S.  Woodruff,  New  Haven, 
Governor. 

Senators : 

Francis  Atwater,  Meriden. 
Dennis  A.  Blakeslee,  New  Haven. 
John  M.  Brady,  New  Britain. 
D.  Luther  Briggs,  Middletown. 
Irving  H.  Chase,  Waterbury. 
Ralph  M.  Grant,  South  Windsor. 
George  H.  Hall,  Bristol. 
Mayro  Keeney,  Somers. 
Patrick  McGovern,  Hartford. 
Howard  A.  Middleton,  E.  Windsor. 
Henry  J,   Potter,  Woodstock. 
John  F.  Shanley,  New  Haven. 
Andrew  N.  Shepard,  Portland. 
James  F.  Walsh,  Greenwich. 


Representatives : 
William  I.  Allen,  Ledyard. 
Joseph  W.  Alsop,  Avon. 
Miles  W.  Aspinwall,  Washington. 
Irwin  C.  Atchison,  Sherman. 
Arthur  A.  Bailey,  Windsor. 
Carlton  J.  Bates,  Chester. 
C.  Edward  Beach,  W.  Hartford. 
Frederick  A.  Beckwith,  East  Lyme. 
Arthur  E.  Bidwell,  Glastonbury. 
Daniel  D.  Bidwell,  East  Hartford. 
Arthur  J.  Birdseye,  Farmington. 
Stephen  F.  Boucher,  Bridgeport. 
Benjamin  B.  Broadbent,  Hamden. 
Frederick  O.  Brown,  Lebanon. 
H.  Beecher  Brown,  Plainfield. 
John  Brown,  Orange. 
Charles  D.  Burnes,  Greenwich. 
Selah  A.  Burnham*  Andover. 
Herbert  Case,  Barkhamsted. 
Eugene  D.  Caulkins,  Old  Lyme. 
Frank  Cheney,  Jr.,  Manchester. 
George  H.  Clark,  East  Granby. 
George  T.  Clark,  Beacon  Falls. 
Thomas  Clark,  Ansonia. 
Hewitt  Coburn,  Jr.,  Manchester. 
Herbert  R.  Coffin,  Windsor  Locks. 
Alvin  F.  Collins,  East  Hampton. 
Michael  Connery,  Redding. 
Tyler  Cruttenden,  Norwich. 
S.  Hart  Culver,  Seymour. 
Martin  J.  Cunningham,  Danbury. 
Frank  O.  Davis,  Pomf ret. 
Chauncey  Dickinson,  Haddam. 
E.  Hart  Fenn,  Wethersfield. 
Edward  A.  Fuller,  Suffield. 
John  W.  Gallup,  Killingly. 
Henry  F.  Gibson,  Woodbury. 
Edward  D.  Gillette,  Easton. 
Arthur  G.  Gordon,  Enfield. 
George  E.  Green,  Berlin. 
Arthur  G.  Griffin,  East  Haddam. 
William  L.  Higgins,  Coventry. 
Charles  M.  Hotchkiss,  Cheshire. 
Arthur  J.  Hull,  Monroe. 
Frederick  A.  Jewell,  N.  Hartford. 
Raymond  J.  Jodoin,  Sprague. 
Walter  I.  Kellogg,  Canaan. 
Frank  J.  Kinney,  Branf  ord. 
Frederick  P.  Latimer,  Groton. 
Frederick  L.  Lehr,  New  Haven. 
William  J.  Lord,  Stonington. 
William  A.  Lyman,  Columbia. 
Marcus  D.  Marks,  North  Haven. 
William  Marvin,  Lyme. 
William  R.  May,  Pomfret. 
Edward  H.  Middlebrook,  Sharon. 
Frank  W.  Morey,  Ashford. 
Frederick  Morton,  Rocky  Hill. 
Francis  I.  Nettleton,  Huntington. 
Thomas  F.  Noone,  Vernon. 
Frederick  D.  North,  East  Windsor. 
Lovel  D.  Parmelee,  Killingworth. 


157 


James  A.  Perry,  Milford. 
Samuel  G.  Redshaw,  Ansonia. 
Charles  H.  Rogers,  East  Haddam. 
Elijah  Rogers,  Southington. 
Asa  M.  Ross,  Thompson. 
B.  Sturges  Selleck,  Ridgefield. 
Calvin  A.  Snyder,  No.  Stonington. 
Albert  W.  Stokes,  Westbrook. 
Albert  E.  Sumner,  Mansfield. 
Nathan  A.  Tuttle,  Torrington. 
Charles  W.  Vibert,  South  Windsor. 
J.  Raymond  Warren,  Lyme. 
Burton  M.  Welch,  Chaplin. 
John  T.  Welles,  Wethersfield. 
Lucius  E.  Whiton,  New  London. 
Arthur  D.  Williams,  Middletown. 
James  S.  Williams,  Glastonbury. 
John  P.  Winchell,  Cornwall. 
William  H.  Wilson,  Harwinton. 
Watson  S.  Woodruff,  Orange. 

1909. 
State  Officers: 
Marcus  H.  Holcomb,  Southington, 

Attorney-General 
Freeman      F.      Patten,      Stafford, 

Treasurer 
Frank     B.     Weeks,     Middletown, 
Lieutenant-Governor,  and  Gov- 
ernor 

Senators : 
Albert  N.  Abbe,  New  Britain. 
William  I.  Allyn,  Ledyard. 
Joseph  W.  Alsop,  Avon. 
Dennis  A.  Blakeslee,  New  Haven. 
George  H.  Bradford,   Montville. 
Samuel  S.  Chamberlin,  Hartford. 
Irving   H.    Chase,   Waterbury. 
John  H.  Courtney,  New  Haven. 
James   H.   Day,   Old   Saybrook. 
E.    Hart    Fenn,    Wethersfield. 
William    L.    Higgins,    Coventry. 
Philip    L.    Holzer,    Bridgeport. 
Frederick   P.   Latimer,   Groton. 
Luzerne  Ludington,  New   Haven. 
John   F.   Shanley,  New   Haven. 
Moses  W.  Manwaring,  Bridgeport. 
Howard  A.  Middleton,    E.  Windsor. 
Charles  S.  Peck.  Danbury. 
Charles  E.  Searls,  Thompson. 

Representatives : 

Charles  G.  Agard,  Torrington. 
Frank   Arrigoni.    Durham. 
George  H.  Atkins,  Torrington. 
Edward    Baker,    Canterbury. 
Frederic  A.  Bartlett,  Bridgeport. 
W.  M.  Beckwith,  New  Hartford. 
Elmer  E.  Bennett,  Canterbury. 
Andrew  S.  Bidwell,  E.  Hartford. 
John  H.  Blakeslee,  North  Haven. 
William  H.  Bliss,  Columbia. 


Benjamin    R.    Briggs,    Plainfield. 
John  C.  Brinsmade,  Washington. 
Burton  N.  Bristol,  Canton. 
William  F.  Broughton,  Stonington.. 
William  Brownlee,  Willington. 
John  Buckley,  Union. 
Leon  L.  Buell,  Marlborough. 
William  Bulkeley,  Berlin. 
Edward  T.  Bunyan,  Colchester. 
Harry  M.  Burke,  Manchester. 
Charles  D.  Burnes,  Greenwich. 
Charles  E.  Burnham,  Hampton. 
Alexander  F.  Carey,   Southington. 
Geo.    M.    Carrington,    Winchester. 
Fred  S.  Chamberlain,  New  Britain. 
Fayette    C.    Clark,    Bridgeport. 
Leon    A.    Coe,    Barkhamsted. 
Herbert  R.  Coffin,  Windsor  Locks. 
Frederick    M.    Colton,    Granby. 
Michael    Connery,    Redding. 
S.    Hart    Culver,    Seymour. 
Hobart  H.  Curtis,  Newtown. 
John    A.    Dady,    Putnam. 
Carl   F.  Dean,  Glastonbury. 
Charles  J.  Dewey,  South  Windsor. 
William   H.   Dewey,   Granby. 
George  A.  Dickinson,  Haddam. 
William  H.   Dougal,  Washington. 
Augustine   C.   Feley,   Hartland. 
John    H.   Fish,    Newington. 
Edward  A.  Fuller,  Suffield. 
Edward  E.  Fuller,  Tolland. 
Edward  E.  Foote,  Hebron. 
John  A.  Frink,  Sterling. 
George    H.    Gabb,    Bloomfield. 
Washington  I.  Gadbois,  E.  Lyme. 
William  H.  Goddard,  Wallingford. 
William  G.  Griswold,  Wethersfield. 
William  S.  Griswold,  W.  Hartford. 
John    S.    Hall,    Lyme. 
William  H.  Hall,  Willington. 
Walter   S.    Hastings,   Windsor. 
C.  Robert  Hatheway,  Windsor. 
Marcus  E.  Helm,  East  Windsor. 
Richard   T.   Higgins,  Winchester. 
Henry  S.  Hitchcock,  Woodbury. 
Dan    D.    Home,    Montville. 
Louis   W.    Howe,    Glastonbury. 
Horace  W.  Hubbard,  Cromwell. 
Walter  D.  Humphrey,  Roxbury. 
Frederick  W.  Huxford,  Stamford. 
Raymond    J.    Jodoin,    Sprague. 
William  C.  Johnson,  Newtown. 
Edwin  H.   Keach,   Killingly. 
Edward  A.  Kelsey,  Clinton. 
Edward   E.   King,   East   Hartford. 
Isaac   S.   Knapp,   New   Fairfield. 
Henry   F.   Kyle,   Bethel. 
Urgele  Lafrance,   Plainfield. 
Isaac  G.  Larkin,  Lebanon. 
Perkins   L.   Lathrop,    Coventry. 
Frank  V.  A.  Loucks,  Cornwall. 
James    Lowry,    Brooklyn. 
Robert  V.  Magee,  Watertown. 


158 


Joseph   McKachnie,    Putnam. 
Arthur  W.  Marsden,   Madison. 
Joseph   M.   Metcalf,   Tolland. 
Charles  Mueller,  New  Britain. 
William    A.    Nelson,    Ansonia. 
Lewis  G.  Northrup,  Bridgewater. 
George  W.  Ogden,  Wilton. 
Francis  H.  Parker,  Hartford. 
Arthur  E.  Parmelee,  Killingworth. 
Simeon   Pease,   Fairfield. 
Henry  A.  Post,  Westbrook. 
John    H.    Reynolds,    Coventry. 
Henry  B.  Russell,  Southbury. 
Frederick  A.    Scott,   Plymouth. 
Gould    A.    Shelton,    Huntington. 
Robert   Sinclair,    Monroe. 
Alden   C.  T.   Smith,   Chester. 
Charles  H.  Smith,  Groton. 
George  F.  Smith,  Milford. 
John    C.   Smith,    New   Hartford. 
Adelbert  H.  Stevens,  Killingworth. 
Frederick  A.   Stoddard,  Litchfield. 
Charles  O.  Thompson,   Pomfret. 
Frank  M.  Thompson,  E.  Windsor. 
Ransom    B.   Tifft,    Ashford. 
Frank  A.  Wallace,  Wallingford. 
Wilfred   V.    Warner,    Wolcott. 
Jesse  H.  Wheeler,  Easton. 
Louis   B.   Whitcomb,   Andover. 
Lucius   E.   Whiton,   New   London. 
Whiting  J.    Wilcox.    Cornwall. 

191 1 
State  Officers : 
Simeon    E.    Baldwin,    New    Haven, 

Governor. 
Dennis  A.  Blakeslee,  New  Haven, 

Lieutenant-Governor. 
John  H.  Light,   Norwalk, 
Attorney-General. 

Senators : 
Joseph  W.  Alsop,  Avon. 
Charles  S.  Avery,  Norwich. 
Arthur  A.  Bailey,  Windsor. 
Frederick  A.  Bartlett,  Bridgeport. 
John    C.    Brinsmade,    Washington. 
Thomas  O.  Elliott,  Pomfret. 
E.   Hart  Fenn,   Wethersfield. 
Charles  B.   Frisbie,   Cromwell. 
Joseph  M.  Halloran,  New  Britain. 
Parley  B.  Leonard,  Vernon. 
Arthur  W.  Marsden,  Madison. 
Garry  Paddock,  Bridgeport. 
Angus  Park,  Sprague. 
Charles  S.   Peck,  Danbury. 
John  F.   Shanley,  New  Haven. 
Frank  C.  Woodruff,  Orange. 

Representatives : 
Myron   R.   Abell,   Lebanon. 
Hestes  W.  Alford,  Windsor. 
William  I.  Allyn,  Ledyard. 


Frank  Arrigoni,  Durham. 
Arthur  P.  Atwood,  Norfolk. 
Arthur  S.  Bailey,  East  Hampton. 
Jacob   Beisiegal,    Woodbridge. 
Joshua   Belden,   Newington. 
Elmer  E.  Bennett,   Canterbury. 
Andrew  S.  Bidwell,  East  Hartford. 
Arthur  E.  Bidwell,  Glastonbury. 
Frank  Blakeslee,  Plymouth. 
John  H.  Blakeslee,  North  Haven. 
Edward  S.  Boyd,  Woodbury. 
Walter  W.  Bronson,  Washington. 
Eugene  W.  Bull,  Kent. 
William  H.  Burr,  Westport. 
Martin   L.    Caine,   Naugatuck. 
William   P.   Camp,   Durham. 
John  H.  Candee,  Easton. 
Alexander   F.   Carey,   Southington. 
Edmund   E.   Case,   Bloomfield. 
Clifford   E.   Chapman,  East  Lyme. 
George   S.   Clark,  Milford. 
Samuel  A.  Coe,  Ridgefield. 
Willis  Covell,  Pomfret. 
John    F.    Craney,    Norwich. 
Myron  E.  Crawford,  New  Canaan. 
William  H.   Crawford,   Stratford. 
Eugene   R.   Day,   Chatham. 
Emery  W.  Dolittle,  Southington. 
Hector  Duvert,  Putnam. 
Marvin    D.   Edgerton,    Bristol. 
Wallace  T.  Fenn,  Wethersfield. 
Arthur  J.  Gallagher,  Newtown. 
Edward    B.    Goddard,    Granby. 
William  H.  Goddard,  Wallingford. 
Lucius   J.    Grant,    South   Windsor. 
Charles  N.  Hall,  New  Milford. 
William  H.  Hall,  Willington. 
Frank   D.   Hallett,   Winchester. 
Frederick  C.  Hoskins,  Simsbury. 
Frederick  W.  Huxford,  Stamford. 
Charles    S.    Hyde,    Canterbury. 
James  H.  Hyde,  Franklin. 
William   S.   Hyde,   Manchester. 
Fred  C.  Hydel,  Avon. 
Milton  C.  Isbell,  Ansonia. 
Charles  J.  Johnson,  Thompson. 
Stephen  I.  Johnson,  Ellington. 
William  C.  Johnson,  Newtown. 
Edwin  H.  Keach,  Killingly. 
Amory  J.  Kebler,  Sterling. 
Matthew  P.  Kelly,  Windsor  Locks. 
Edward  A.  Kelsey,  Clinton. 
Edward  E.  King,  East  Hartford. 
George   S.  Kirby,   Sharon. 
William  C.  Knowles,  Haddam. 
Urgele  Laf ranee,  Plainfield. 
Arthur  W.  Lamb,   Sharon. 
Perkins  L.  Lathrop,  Coventry. 
Herman  E.  Learned,  Lisbon. 
Charles  Loucks,  Wallingford. 
Frank  A.  Luhrsen,  Tolland. 
Robert  V.   Magee,  Watertown. 
Wilbur  S.  Miller,  Hartland. 
Frederick  W.  Miner,  New  Britain. 


159 


Monroe  E.  Mitchell,  Canton. 
Charles  W.  Murphy.  Danbury. 
Michael  D.  O'Connell,  Stafford. 
Clayton  A.  Parmelee,  Saybrook. 
Friend  J.   Peck,  Hamden. 
Albert  Phillips,   Stamford. 
Michael  P.  Rice,  Branford. 
Harry  W.  Reynolds,  East  Haddam. 
Edward  L.  Roberts,  North  Canaan. 
Frederick  A.  Scott,  Plymouth. 
A.  V.  W.  Sherman,  W.  Hartford. 
Andrew    Slater,    Farmington. 
Edward  L.  Smith,  Mansfield. 
J.  Warren  Stark,  Lyme. 
Charles  L.  Spencer,  Suffield. 
William  E.  Stetson,  Andover. 
Claude  W.  Stevens,  Berlin. 
Lewellyn  J.    Storrs,   Mansfield. 
James  H.   Stuart,   Sherman. 
John  M.  Tatem,  Eastford. 
Henry  E.  Terrell,  Cheshire. 
Charles  O.  Thompson,  Pomfret. 
Dwight  B.  Tiffany,  Winchester. 
Daniel  F.  Tucker,  Columbia. 
Charles  S.  Turner,  Chaplin. 
William  P.  Tyler,  Middlebury. 
John   N.   Walbridge,   Tolland. 
Wilfred  V.  Warner,  Wolcott. 
Albert  B.  Webb,   Brooklyn. 
Morris  C.  Webster,  Harwinton. 
Frank  M.  White,  Guilford. 
Lucius  E.  Whiton,  New  London. 
James  M.  Whittelsey,  Morris. 
Howard  N.  Wilcox,  Bristol. 
Ray  C.  Wildman,  Brookfield 
Harry  Wood,  Tolland 


1913 
State  Officers: 

Simeon    E.    Baldwin,    New   Haven, 

Governor. 
John  H.  Light,   Norwalk, 

Attorney-General. 
Albert   Phillips,   Stamford, 

Secretary. 
Edward  S.  Roberts,  North  Canaan, 

Treasurer. 

Senators : 

Charles  S.  Avery,  Norwich. 
William  C.  Cheney,  Manchester. 
Frederick  M.  Colton,  Granby. 
Edwin  H.  Keach,  Killingly. 
Mayro  Keeney,   Somers. 
John  H.  Mountain,  Middletown. 
Frederick   L.   Neebe,   Meriden. 
John  H.  Perry,   Fairfield. 
John  L.   Purcell,  Hartford. 
Harry  W.   Reynolds,   E.   Haddam. 
John  F.  Shanley,  New  Haven. 
Claude  W.  Stevens,  Berlin. 
Hanford  S.  Weed,  New  Canaan. 


Representatives : 
Christopher  L.  Avery,   Groton. 
Edward   Baker,   Canterbury. 
Ransom   L.   Baldwin,   Meriden. 
Walter  H.  Baldwin,  Cheshire. 
Dwight  M.  Banks,  Fairfield. 
Wilson   A   Barber,   East  Windsor. 
Henry  M.  Betting,  Preston. 
Arthur  E.  Bidwell,  Glastonbury. 
Edward  S.  Boyd,  Woodbury. 
Archibald  H.  Bradley,  Burlington. 
William  H.  Breen,  Cornwall. 
Patrick  F.  Bresnahan,  Norfolk. 
Elbert  L.  Bunnell,  Barkhamsted. 
Martin  L.  Caine,  Naugatuck. 
Edward  T.  Carter,   Plainville. 
Lyman  P.  Case,  Winchester. 
Edward  J.  Carroll,  East  Hartford. 
George  H  Champlin,  Columbia. 
Frank  W.  Chappell,  Chaplin. 
John   Clancy,    Farmington. 
John   W.   Collins,  Washington. 
Clark   Congdon,   Sterling. 
Frank  W.  Congdon,  Hampton. 
Charles  F.  Couger,  Newtown. 
John  F.   Craney,  Norwich. 
Peter  Crona,  New  Britain. 
Bradford  W.  Danielson,  Plainfield. 
Henry  H.  Davenport,  Pomfret. 
Charles  E.  Davis,  North  Haven. 
Homer  P.  Deming,  Colebrook. 
Samuel   S.   Denton,   Ridgefield. 
Junius  Z.  Douglass,  Bristol. 
Horace  M.  Dunbar,  Sharon. 
Kirk  W.   Dyer,   Cromwell. 
Richard  B.   Eno,   Simsbury. 
Ernest   L.    French,    Plainfield. 
Ernest  S.  Fuller,  Somers. 
Merritt    E.    Gallup,    Pomfret. 
Louis  A.   Gowdy,   Somers. 
Fred.    A.    Griswold,    Wethersfield. 
Charles  N.  Hall,  New  Milford. 
John  S.  Hall,  Lyme. 
William  H.   Hall,   Willington. 
Alfred  W.   Hanmer,  Wethersfield. 
Robert  W.  Hayes,  Hartland. 
Frank  E.  Healy,  Windsor  Locks. 
John  J.  Hemmeler,  Willington. 
Charles  W.  Hodges,  New  Canaan. 
Heman  T.  Holdredge,  Stonington. 
Edwin  T.  Hook,  Newtown. 
Collins  W.  Hudson,  East  Windsor. 
W.  S.  Hungerford,  E.  Haddam. 
Carroll  W.   Hutchinson,   Hebron. 
William  S.  Hyde,  Manchester. 
Elmer  Jackson,  Wilton. 
Charles  J.  Johnson,  Thompson. 
John  Johnson,  Tolland. 
D.  Clark  Joyce,  Brookfield. 
Herman  P.  Kopplemann,  Hartford. 
C.   W.  Leavenworth,  Wallingford. 
Charles  D.  Lockwood,  Stamford. 
Charles  N.  Loomis,  Bolton. 
Charles  L.  Luce,  Newington. 


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Henry  H.  Lyman,  Middlefield. 

Archibald  Macdonald,   Putnam. 

Robert  V.   Magee,  Watertown. 

Thurman  P.  Maine,  N,  Stonington. 

Arthur  W.  Marsden,  Madison. 

Abram  Martin,  Salisbury. 

Henry  C.  Messenger,  N.  Hartford. 

Ariel  Mitchelson,  Simsbury. 

Cady  R.  Morse,  Bethel. 

Charles  Mueller,  New  Britain. 

Joseph  H.  North,  Goshen. 

Frank   K.   Noyes,   Lebanon. 

Alfred  L.   Ohmen,  Warren. 

Clarence  H.  Perry,  Scotland. 

Martin  E.   Pierson,  Bristol. 

William  J.  Reel,  North  Canaan. 

Michael   P.  Rice,  Branford. 

Thomas  J.  Ryle,  Stamford. 

Emory   P.    Sanford,   Redding. 

John   W.   Sanford,   Jr.,   Hamden. 
James  T.  Shea,  Lisbon. 
John  L.  Sherman,  Orange. 

Frederick  E.   Silliman,  Easton. 
Frederick  J.  Snyder,  Coventry. 
Herbert  L.  Spear,  Suffield. 
Charles  L.  Spencer,  Suffield. 
Howard  H.  Spencer,  N.  Hartford. 
C.  Parker  Stearns,  Andover. 
Samuel   L.   Stevens,   Danbury. 
Carlos   H.   Storrs,   Ansonia. 
Walter  F.  Storrs,  Mansfield. 
Theodore    Sturges,    Cornwall. 
Abel  P.  Tanner,  New  London. 
Howard   W.   Taylor,   Danbury. 
Arthur  C.  Titus,  Washington. 
Dudley  L.  Vaill,  Winchester. 
John  Van   Wie,   Branford. 
Daniel   Webster,    Berlin. 
Morris   C.   Webster,   Harwinton. 
Albert  R.  Wells,  Southington. 
Truman  E.  Wheeler,  Woodbury. 
Daniel  T.  Williams,  Colchester. 
Prescott  H.  Woodford,  Avon. 

1915 
State  Officers : 

Charles  D.  Burnes,  Greenwich, 

Secretary. 
Fred.  S.  Chamberlain,    New  Britain, 

Treasurer. 
George  E.   Hinman,  Windham, 

Attorney-General. 
Marcus  H.  Holcomb,  Southington, 

Governor. 
Morris   C.  Webster,  Harwinton, 

Comptroller. 
Clifford  B.  Wilson,  Bridgeport, 

Lieutenant-Governor. 

Senators  : 

John  H.  Barnes,  Norwich. 
Frederic   A.   Bartlett,   Bridgeport. 
Harvey  P.  Bissell,  Ridgefield. 
Louis  R.  Cheney,  Hartford. 


Benjamin   H.  Hewett,   Stonington. 
Edward  E  King,  East  Hartford. 
Henry  H.   Lyman,   Middlefield. 
Robert  V.  Magee,  Watertown. 
James  R.  Mead,  Greenwich. 
John  M.  O'Connell,  Bridgeport. 
James  A.  Peasley,  Waterbury. 
Martin  E.  Pierson,  Bristol. 
John  L.  Purcell,  Hartford. 
Frederick  M   Salmon,  Westport. 
John  M.  Tatem,  Eastford. 
Charles  O.  Thompson,  Pomfret. 
Wm.  P.  Tyler,  Middlebury. 
Lucius  E.  Whiton,  New  London. 

Representatives : 
Sessions  L.  Adams,  Plainfield. 
W.  Burton  Allen,  Litchfield. 
Dionigi  Arrigoni,  Durham. 
John  Ash,  Pomfret. 
Bennett  C  Atwood,  Watertown. 
Bronson  W.  Atwood,  Middlebury. 
Oscar  F.  Atwood,  Brooklyn. 
Edmund  S.  Backus,  Thompson. 
Albert  J.  Bailey,  Norwich. 
Edward  Baker,  Canterbury. 
Alexander  M.  Bassett,  Ashford. 
Thomas  W.  Beaumont,  Cromwell. 
Edward  W.  Bennett,  Cornwall. 
Frank  E.   Boardman,  Middletown. 
Arthur  E.  Bowers,  Manchester. 
Jervis  D.  Brown,  Jr.,  Milford. 
John   Brown,   Orange. 
Edward    T.    Carter,    Plainville. 
Lyman  P.  Case,  Winchester. 
Charles  H.  Caul,  Norfolk. 
Ernest  P.  Chesbro,  Windham. 
George  E.  Churchill,  Newington. 
Charles  H.  Clark,  Southington. 
George  T.  Clark,  Beacon  Falls. 
Ernest  L.  Coles,  Middlefield. 
Clark    Congdon,    Plainfield. 
Frank  Q.  Cronin,  New  London. 
Charles  S.   Curtiss,  Woodbury. 
Marion  R.  Davis,  East  Lyme. 
Welcome   Davis,   Eastford. 
Richard  H.  Deming,  W.  Hartford. 
John  B.  Dillon,  Shelton. 
Robert  O.  Eaton,  North  Haven. 
E.  Hart  Fenn,  Wethersfield. 
Charles  S.  Fuller,  Somers. 
Milan  J.  Gilman,  Colebrook. 
Eugene  E.  Goddard,  Granby. 
Arthur  B.   Goodrich,   Glastonbury. 
Henry    C    Goslee,    Morris. 
Owen  E.  Goslee,  East  Granby. 
E.  Clayton  Goodwin,  New  Britain. 
Edward  Hall,  Plainfield. 
George  B.  Hall,  East  Haddam. 
John  S.  Hall,  Lyme. 
William   H.   Hall,   Willington. 
Edward  Handel,  East  Hartford. 
William  H.  Heald,  Stafford. 
Frank  E.  Healy,  Windsor  Locks. 


11 


161 


Joseph  H.  Henderson,  Norwich. 
Thomas   Hewes,   Farmington. 
John   L.   Hitchcock,    Hartland. 
William  Hohbein,   Burlington. 
Clifford  E.  Hough,  Washington. 
Albert  H.  House,  Windsor. 
Warren  C  Hubbell,  Huntington. 
James    H.    Hutchins,    Pomfret. 
Frederick  W.  Huxford,  Stamford. 
William  S.  Hyde,  Manchester. 
Fred  C.  Hydel,  Avon. 
Milton  C.  Isbell,  Ansonia. 
Edgar  G.  Jennings,   Easton. 
Francis  H.  Johnson,  Lisbon. 
Allen  W.  Jones,  Westbrook. 

D.  Clark  Joyce,  Brookfield. 
George  B.  Klebes,  Sharon. 
Charles  C.  Lacey,  Fairfield. 

C.   Huntington   Lathrop,   Franklin. 
C.  W.   Leavenworth,   Wallingford. 
James  E.  Loughlin,  Enfield. 
Edgar  R.  LaPlace,  Saybrook. 
Archibald   Macdonald,   Putnam. 
Geo.  N.  McKendry,  New  Canaan. 
Samuel  G.  McLean,  Glastonbury. 
William  C.  Marble,  Haddam. 
Arthur  W.  Marsden,  Madison. 
Abram    Martin,    Salisbury. 
Chester  E.  May,  Woodstock. 
George  Mexcur,  Bloomfield. 
William  L.  Meyer,  Hartford. 
Edward  L.  Mitchell,  Southbury. 
Ivan  L.  Morehouse,  Stratford. 
Stanley  D.  Morgan,  Waterford. 
Peter  Morgansen,  Tolland. 
Egbert  A.   Norton,  Colebrook. 
Frank    J.    Pavelka,    Killingworth. 
Frederick  M.  Peasley,  Cheshire. 
S.  Arnold  Peckham,  Windham. 
Echford   G.   Pendleton,    Preston. 
Frederick  L.    Perry,    New   Haven. 
Jerome  C.  Potter,  Guilford. 
John   S.  Pratt,  Harwinton. 
Francis  A.  Randall,  Vernon. 
John  Reid,  Bethel. 
Thomas   P.   Reilly,   Naugatuck. 
John   H.   Reynolds,   Coventry. 
Fernando    C.    Ross.    Thompson. 
James  E.  Ryan,  Ridgefield. 
John  W.  Sanford,  Jr.,  Hamden. 
Edwin    W.    Schultz,    New    Britain. 
Samuel  C.  Shaw,  Redding. 
Harry  R.  Sherwood,  Westport. 
Daniel   E.   Smith,   Chester. 
William  F.  Smith,  Hamden. 
William  F.  Smithwick,  Bristol. 
Herbert  L.  Spear,  Suffield. 
Samuel  R.  Spencer,  Sufneld. 
Nelson   L.    Stark,    Bozrah. 
Wilbur   Sturges,   Weston. 

E.  Everett  Swan,  East  Haddam. 
Stephen  A.  Talmadge,  Prospect. 
Benjamin  F.  Taylor,  Washington. 
Frederick  N.  Taylor,  Lebanon. 


Howard  W.  Taylor,  Danbury. 
Herbert  E.  Thatcher,  Somers. 
James  A,  Thomas,  Lebanon. 
Matt  A.  Tinker,  Montville. 
George  M.  Tracy,  Derby. 
Charles  F.  Tristram,   Norwalk. 
William  B.  Tuttle,  Plymouth. 
Dudley  L.  Vaill,  Winchester. 
Albert  R.  Wells,  Southington. 
Dudley  Wells,  Wethersfield. 
John   G.   Wightman,   Stafford. 
Elias  F.  Wilcox,  Stonington. 
John  H.  Wiltshire,   Bethlehem. 
John  H.  Yost,  Vernon. 

1917 

State  Officers : 
Fred.  S.  Chamberlain,   New  Britain, 

Treasurer. 
George  E.  Hinman,  Windham, 

Attorney-General. 
Marcus  H.  Holcomb,  Southington, 

Governor. 
Frederick  L.  Perry,  New  Haven, 

Secretary. 
Morris  C.  Webster,  Harwinton, 

Comptroller. 
Clifford   B.   Wilson,   Bridgeport, 

Lieutenant-Governor. 

Senators : 

Sessions  L.  Adams,   Plainfield. 
John  H.   Barnes,   Norwich. 
Frederic   A.   Bartlett,    Bridgeport. 
Harvey  P.  Bissell,   Ridgefield. 
Edward  S.  Boyd,  Woodbury. 
Edward  W.  Broder,  Hartford. 
John  E.  Doughan,  New  Haven. 
William   H.   Hall,  Wellington. 
Charles  C.  Hemenway,  Hartford. 
Frank   H.   Hinckley,   Stonington. 
Herman  P.  Kopplemann,  Hartford. 
William  J.  Larkin,  Waterbury. 
Harry  A.  Leonard,  New  Haven. 
Henry  H.  Lyman,   Middlefield. 
Archibald  Macdonald,  Putnam. 
James  R.  Mead,  Greenwich. 
Frederick  L.  Neebe,  Meriden. 
John  M.  O'Connell,  Bridgeport. 
Elijah    Rogers,    Southington. 
Frederick  H.  Rolf,  Guilford. 
Charles  L.  Spencer,  Suffield. 
Robbins  B.  Stoeckel,  Norfolk. 

Representatives : 

Sidney   E.   Ackley,   East  Haddam. 
William  I.  Allyn,  Ledyard. 
Oscar  F.  Atwood,  Brooklyn. 
Heman  O.  Averill,  Washington. 
Edmund  S.  Backus,  Thompson. 
Albert  J.  Bailey,   Norwich. 
Edward  Baker,  Canterbury. 
Frank  H.  Barnes,  Southington. 
William  A.  Barnes,  Ansonia. 


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Gustavus  C.  Beckwith,  N.  Hartford. 
Jesse    L.    Benedict,    Ridgefield. 
Emil   T.   Berger,   Trumbull. 
Enoch   T.   Birdsey,   Middlefield. 
Jonathan  E.  Bliss,  Clinton. 
Frank  E.  Boardman,  Middletown. 
Arthur  E.  Bowers,  Manchester. 
George  H.  Bradford,  Montville. 
William  H.  Brewer,  E.  Hartford. 
Aldemar  A.  Brodeur,  Putnam. 
Jervis  D.   Brown,  Jr.,   Milford. 
Robert  T.  Buell,  Marlborough. 
George  P.  Bugbee,  Willington. 
William  G.  Bushnell,  Westbrook. 
Martin  L.  Caine,  Naugatuck. 
Nehemiah  Candee,  Norwalk. 
Lyman  P.  Case,  Winchester. 
Theodore  G.  Case,  Granby. 
Charles  H.   Caul,   Norfolk. 
Augustus  E.  Chappuis,  Warren. 
Constant  W.  Chatfield,  Voluntown. 
William   Chew,   Bridgeport. 
Frank  W.  Churchill,  Rocky  Hill. 
Charles  E.  Clark,  Woodbridge. 
George  T.  Clark,  Beacon  Falls. 
Wesley  N.  Clark,  Granby. 
Edward  S.  Coe,  Cromwell. 
Walter  W.  Collar,  Norfolk. 
Charles  J.  Conrad,  Shelton. 
George  B.  Cowles,  Woodbury. 
William  S.  Cowles,  Farmington. 
S.  ( Hart   Culver,   Seymour. 
William  T.  Curry,  Lebanon. 
Frank  I.  Date,  Franklin. 
William  J.   Day,    Barkhamsted. 
Asahel  R.  DeWolf,  East  Lyme. 
Leonard  M.  Dickinson,  Hartland. 
John  B.  Dillon,  Huntington. 
Junius  Z.  Douglass,   Bristol. 
Charles  O.  Eakland,  Wilton. 
Robert  O.  Eaton,  North  Haven. 
Richard  B.  Eno,  Simsbury. 
William  H.   Eustice,   Plymouth. 
Oliver  D.  Filley,  Bloomfield. 
John   H.   Fish,   Newington. 
Peter  FitzHenry,  Waterbury. 
Charles  C.  Ford,  Washington. 
Ernest    S.    Fuller,    Somers. 
I.  Kent  Fulton,  Salisbury. 
Gourdin  Y.  Gaillard,  New  Haven. 
Howard  S.  Gilbert,  Bethel. 
William  H.  Goddard,  Wallingford. 
James   Graham,   Lisbon. 
Fremont  M.  Granniss,  Litchfield. 
Byron  H.  Griswold,  Glastonbury. 
Frederick  D.  Griswold,  Goshen. 
Charles  N.  Hall,  New  Milford. 
Edward  F.  Hall,  New  Britain. 
Richard   J.    Hall,   Ansonia. 
Ray  L.   Harding,   Lyme. 
Samuel   P.   Hayes,  Bethlehem. 
Walter   Hayles,   Hamden. 
William  H.  Heald,  Stafford. 
Frank  E.  Healy,  Windsor  Locks. 


Patrick  J.  Healey,  Waterbury. 
George  R.  Hempstead,  Groton. 
Joseph  H.  Henderson,  Norwich. 
Howard  Hicock,  Southbury. 
William  L.  Higgins,  Coventry. 
Oliver  A.   Hiscox,  Woodstock. 
Henry  S.  Hitchcock,  Woodbury. 
John  P.  Hollowell,  Preston. 
William  A.  Holt,  New  London. 
Edmund  A.  Hoskins,  Simsbury. 
Edward  A.  Hoxie,  Lebanon. 
Stephen  R.  Hoyt,  Darien. 
Eugene   F.   Hutchinson,   Columbia. 
Frederick  W.  Huxford,  Stamford. 
Paul    P.   Ives,   Guilford. 
H.  Roger  Jones,  New  Hartford. 
Lee  H.  Kellogg,  Canaan. 
Sidney  D.  Kelsey,  Killingworth. 
John   E.    Kingsbury,   Coventry. 
Charles  C.  Lacey,  Fairfield. 
August  L.  Lange,  Meriden. 
Geo.  W.  P.  Leavenworth,  Roxbury. 
William  H.  Leete,  Enfield. 
Hurvey  M.  Luther,  East  Haddam. 
Arthur  W.  Marsden,  Madison. 
Frank  E.  Miller,  Canterbury. 
John  C.  Miller,  Ellington. 
Albert  L.  Mills,  Hampton. 
Maurice  E.  Minor,   Plymouth. 
Monroe    E.    Mitchell,    Canton. 
Thomas  F.  Molloy,  Derby. 
Ivan  L.  Morehouse,   Stratford. 
Richard   H.  Morgan,   Cheshire. 
Robert  B.  Morse,  New  Canaan. 
Edgar  W.  Munson,  Hamden. 
Elwin  N.  Myers,  East  Windsor. 
Raymond   Pack,  Morris. 
Frederick  H.  Page,  Durham. 
Fitz  Henry  Paine,  Pomfret. 
Cleon  L.  Parmelee,  Killingworth. 
George  S.  Parsons,  Enfield. 
Frederick  M.  Peasley,  Cheshire. 
William  F.  Piatt,  Milford. 
John    S.    Pratt,    Harwinton. 
William  A.  Preston,  Cornwall. 
Archibald  G.  Prisk,  Wallingford. 
J.   Laurence   Raymond,  Lyme. 
William  J.  Reel,  North  Canaan. 
Thomas   P.   Reilly,   Naugatuck. 
Wilson  W.  Robotham,  Farmington. 
Willard  B.  Rogers,  Manchester. 
Franklin   M.    Rose,   Essex. 
Malcolm  D.  Rudd,  Salisbury. 
James   E.   Ryan,   Ridgefield. 
Walter  E.  Savage,  Meriden. 
Wilfred  W.  Savage,  Wethersfield. 
Samuel   C.   Shaw,   Redding. 
W.   Franklin    Sheldon,    Plainfield. 
Harry  R.  Sherwood,  Westport. 
William  J.   Simpson,   Plainville. 
Howard  B.  Smith,  Middlebury. 
Leonard    Smith,   Mansfield. 
Samuel  R.  Spencer,  Sufneld. 
Charles  G.  Stone,  Durham. 


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Edward  C.  Stoughton,  Thomas-ton. 
John  J.   Sweeney,   Bozrah. 
Charles  B.  Tammany,  Easton. 
Edward  E.  Thompson,  Glastonbury. 
Howard   W.   Taylor,   Danbury. 
Otto  H.  Tiedeman,  Sharon. 
Charles  R.  Treat,  Orange. 
F.  Romaine  Tucker,  Willington. 


Dudley  N.  Vaill,  Winchester. 
Arthur  M.  Waitt,  Sharon. 
Wilfred  V.  Warner,  Wolcott. 
Duane  J.  Webster,  Burlington. 
John   G.  Wightman,   Stafford. 
Elias  F.  Wilcox,  Stonington. 
Samuel  R.  Woodward,  Bolton. 
John  H.  Yost,  Vernon. 


1919 
The  names  of  all  the  members  of  the  General  Assembly  of  1919 
are  printed  on  another  page  of  this  book.     Of  the  293  members,  247 
were  present. 


164 


NAMES  OF  THOSE  NOT  PRESENT 

at  the 
GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  CENTENNIAL 


The  following  persons  acknowledged  the  receipt  of  an  invitation  to 
the  Celebration,  but  for  various  reasons  were  unable  to  attend: 


1858 
Representative : 
Chester  R.  Woodford,  Avon. 

1862 
Representative : 
Erastus  S.  Day,  Colchester. 

1863 
Representative : 

George  M.  Woodruff,  Litchfield. 


Representative : 
Erastus  S.  Day,  Colchester. 

1865 
Representatives : 

Merrick  A.  Marcy,  Union. 
George  M.  Woodruff,  Litchfield. 

1866 
Representatives : 
J.  Warren  Johnson,  Enfield. 
Merrick  A.  Marcy,  Union. 
Richard  Wheeler,  No.  Stonington. 

1869 
Representatives : 

Horace   Belden,   Simsbury. 

Tim.   C.   Coogan,  Windsor  Locks. 

1870 
Representatives : 
Jepthah  G.  Bill,  Griswold. 
L.  Legrand  Hopkins,  N.  Fairfield. 
J.  Warren  Johnson,  Enfield. 

1871 
Representatives : 
James  W.  Cheney,  Manchester. 
L.  Legrand  Hopkins,  N.  Fairfield. 
Robert  M.  Jewett,  Lyme. 
William  C.  Russell,  Orange. 


1872 
Senator: 

Lucius  Brown,  Preston. 
Representatives : 

Marcius  A.  Cady,  Stafford. 

Nathaniel  L.  Knowlton,  Ashford. 

George  M.  Woodruff,  Litchfield. 

1873 
Senator: 

Merrick  A.  Marcy,  Union. 
Representatives : 

Robert  N.  Cochrane,  Cornwall. 

Tim.   C.   Coogan,  Windsor  Locks. 

Henry  E.  Dimock,  Tolland. 

Dwight  J.  Glazier,  Stafford. 

Virgil   F.   McNeil,   Cornwall. 

Henry  B.   Sisson,  Lyme. 

Alpheus   W.   Tyler,   Haddam. 

1874 
Senator: 

Merrick  A.  Marcy,  Union. 
Representatives : 

J.  Dwight  Chaffee,   Mansfield. 

Edmund   Day,   Seymour. 

Erastus  S.  Day,  Colchester. 

Monroe  Hart,  Barkhamsted. 

Phineas   C.  Lounsbury,   Ridgefield. 

Avery   A.    Stanton,    Sterling. 

Alpheus   W.    Tyler,    Haddam. 

1875 
Senator: 

Tim.   C.   Coogan,  Windsor   Locks. 
Representatives : 

Ephraim  Bridge,  Enfield. 

Frank  A.   Case,   Barkhamsted. 

Lucius  H.  Foote,  Durham. 

Jared  A.  Gallup,  Voluntown. 

Charles  A.  Hawkins,  Tolland. 

L.  LeGrand  Hopkins,  N.  Fairfield. 

James  B.  Palmer,  Lisbon. 

William  D.  Ruby,  Willington. 

Charles  F.   Smith,  Orange. 

Jerome   Tourtellotte,    Putnam. 

Smith  C.  Wheeler,  Oxford. 


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Senator: 


1876 


Tim.   C.   Coogan,   Windsor  Locks. 
Representatives : 

Marcius  A.  Cady,  Stafford. 
Lucius  H.  Foote,  Durham. 
George  A.  Hammond,  Mansfield. 
.Daniel  B.  Mallory,  Sherman. 
James  B.  Palmer,  Lisbon  . 
Francis    Pinney,   Ellington. 
Henry   B.   Sisson,  Lyme. 
Charles  F.  Smith,  Orange. 
Everett  S.  Warner,  Rocky  Hill. 

1877 
Senators : 
Daniel  B.  Mallory,  Sherman. 
Lucius  Brown,  Preston. 

Representatives : 

James  G.  Curtiss,  Woodbury. 

George  W.  Dains,  Harwinton. 

Salmon   B.   Giddings,  Hartland. 

Charles    A.    Hawkins,   Tolland. 

Orrin  S.  Thompson,  N.  Hartford. 
1878 
Senator : 

Lucius  Brown,  Preston. 
Representatives : 

Irwin  J.  Beardsley,  Kent. 

John   H.   Fuller,  Marlborough. 

Joseph  O.   Goodwin,  E.  Hartford. 

William  P.  Marcy,  Union. 

Samuel  N.  Morgan,  Salem. 

Job    F.    Seamans,    Killingly. 

Henry  B.   Sisson,   Lyme. 

1879 

Representatives : 

Edwin  P.  Augur,  Middlefield. 
Frank  A.   Case,  Barkhamsted. 
Allison  N.  Clark,  Plainyille. 
George  E.  Cook,  Harwinton. 
Frederick  H.  Dunham,  Chatham. 
Martin  W.  Frisbie,  Southington. 
Thomas  H.  Fuller,  Scotland. 
James  G.  Gregory,  Norwalk. 
Merrick  A.   Marcy,  Union. 
Charles  B.  Northrop,  Ridgefield. 
William  B.  Perry,  Salisbury. 
William  M.  Smith,  Chaplin. 
Orrin   S.  Thompson,   N.  Hartford. 
Henry    Young,    Tolland. 

1880 
Representatives : 
Ezra  B.  Bailey,  Franklin. 
Henry   M.   Barbour,    Canton. 
John  W.  Edgerton,  Tolland. 
Martin  W.  Frisbie,  Southington. 
Henry  P.  Lane,  Barkhamsted. 
Merrick  A.  Marcy,  Union. 
John  A.  Moore,  Colebrook. 


Cyrus  B.  Newton,  Stafford. 
Frederic  E.  Rice,  Granby. 
Charles   S.   Smith,   Kent. 
Jerome   Tourtellotte,    Putnam. 
John  M.  Wood,  Coventry. 

1881 

Representatives : 
Edwin    S.   Agard,    Tolland. 
Samuel  M.  Bailey,  Wolcott. 
Virgil   R.   Barker,   Harwinton. 
Richard  G.  Beebe,  Stafford. 
Charles    F.    Burt,   Hebron. 
Fitch  L.  Comstock,  Waterford. 
Stiles  A.  Crandall,  Ledyard. 
Charles  W.  Grosvenor,  Pomfret. 
Denzel  B.  Hoadley,  Bethany. 
L.  Legrand  Hopkins,  N.  Fairfield. 
Edward   H.   Jacobs,   Killingly. 
John  H.  Selden,  Chatham. 
Jared  H.   Stearns,  Mansfield. 
Dwight  W.  Tuttle,  East  Haven. 
William  H.  Vining,  Colebrook. 
Moses  A.  Wadhams,   Goshen. 

1882 
Representatives : 
George   A.   Allen,  Torrington. 
Samuel  M.  Bailey,  Wolcott. 
John  W.  Coogan,  Windsor  Locks. 
Andrew  W.  Culver,  Beacon  Falls. 
Alfred  W.  Hutchinson,  Hebron. 
J.  Warren  Johnson,  Enfield. 
Joseph  C.  Leffingwell,  Bozrah. 
Augustus  F.  Read,  Lisbon. 
Edward  D.  Robbins,  Wethersfield. 
Hubert  S.   Scovill,  Goshen. 
Lewis  E.  Smith,  Ridgefield. 
James  H.  Warner,  Rocky  Hill. 
S.  Brainard  West,  Columbia. 

1883 
Representatives : 
Ezra  B.  Bailey,  Windsor  Locks. 
Elihu    Carlisle,   Goshen. 
Marvin  P.  Colman,  Coventry. 
Oliver  P.  Cowdery,  Hartland. 
William  H.  Doyle,  Litchfield. 
Arthur  W.  Eaton,  East  Hartford. 
Herman  Fleischer,  New  Britain. 
Frank  Gorham,  Weston. 
E.   Stevens  Henry,  Vernon. 
George  P.  McLean,  Simsbury. 
Timothy  B.  McNamara,  Plymouth. 
Leonard   J.   Nickerson,   Cornwall. 
Newton   Osborn,   Newington. 
Henry   A.    Richmond,    Preston. 
Edward  D.  Robbins,  Wethersfield. 
George   L.    Rosebrooks,    Mansfield. 
Willis  D.  Rouse,  Plainfield. 
Guilford    Smith,    Windham. 
Jabez   Southworth,   Saybrook. 
Timothy  C.  Tiffany,  Barkhamsted. 
Orren  C.  West,  Vernon. 


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State   Officer: 

Frank  D.  Sloat,  New  Haven, 
Comptroller. 
Senator: 

Edmund    Day,    Seymour. 

Representatives : 

Myron  E.  Cable,  Washington. 
Charles  A.  Clark,  Marlborough. 
John   H.  Fanton,  Danbury. 
David   S.   Gilmour,   Norwich. 
Frederick  A.  Granniss,  Cheshire. 
Phineas    M.    Griswold,    Madison. 
Albert    Hall,    Willington. 
Lyman  Hewitt,  Wethersfield. 
Gilbert  H.  Holcombe,  Burlington. 
George  A.  Hopson,  Wallingford. 
Hadlai  A.  Hull,  Stonington. 
Robert  M.  Jewett,  Lyme. 
Henry  McKinney,  Stafford. 
George  P.  McLean,  Simsbury. 
Clark  C.  Palmer,  Griswold. 
Judson  A.  Potter,  Willington. 
Charles  T.   Preston,  Killingly. 
Franklin   Y.   Silliman,   Chester. 
Smith   C.  Wheeler,  Oxford. 

1885 
Senators : 
J.  Dwight  Chaffee,  Mansfield. 
Edmund   Day,    Seymour. 

Representatives : 

Curtiss   C.  Atwell,   Durham. 
Henry  E.  Bradley,  Washington 
J.  Raymond  Douglass,  Salem. 
David   S.    Gilmour,    Norwich. 
John  S.  Griffin,  East  Haddam. 
Charles  W.  Grosvenor,  Pomfret. 
George  A.  Hammond,  Putnam. 
J.  Henry  King,  Lebanon. 
Charles  R.  Marvin,  Saybrook. 
Stephen  D.  Moore,  Preston. 
John  J.  Phelan,  Bridgeport. 
Charles  A.   Satterlee,  Ledyard. 
William  M.  Stark,  New  London. 
Henry  W.  Trowbridge,  Roxbury. 
Alfred  N.  Wildman,   Danbury. 

1886 
Senators : 
J.    Dwight    Chaffee,    Mansfield. 
Charles  W.  Grosvenor,  Pomfret. 
George  P.  McLean,  Simsbury. 

Representatives : 

Samuel  Ashwell,  Rocky  Hill. 
Oscar   L.   Beardsley,   Huntington. 
Fred  H.  Bevans,  Bethel. 
Benjamin  L.   Bronson,  Wolcott. 
Thomas  S.  Brown,  Chatham. 
Arthur  H.  Galpin,  Wethersfield. 
Jerome   F.   Gibbs,   Kent. 
William    Hamersley,    Hartford. 
George  A.  Hammond,  Putnam. 


William  H.  Hammond,  Hampton. 
Nelson  T.  Hungerford,  Sherman. 
Thurston  B.  Lillibridge,   Norwich. 
William  V.  McNerney,  Vernon. 
Frederick  A.  Pierson,  Ellington. 
Harris  Pendleton,  Guilford. 
John    J.    Phelan,    Bridgeport. 
William  C.  Sanford,  Redding. 
Job  F.  Seamans,  Killingly. 
Frank   L.    Stephens,    Barkhamsted. 

1887 
State   Officer: 

Phineas  C.  Lounsbury,  Ridgefield. 
Governor. 
Senators : 

Ezra  B.  Bailey,  Windsor  Locks. 

O.  Vincent  Coffin,  Middletown. 

Edgar  J.  Doolittle,  Meriden. 

E.   Stevens  Henry,  Vernon. 
Representatives : 

Wellington  M.  Andrew,  Orange. 

Caleb  Anthony,  Scotland. 

Emerson  E.  Barker,  Branford. 

John   D.   Bassett,   Norfolk. 

William  W.  Bolles,  Marlborough. 

William  H.  Brackett,  Willington. 

Simon  C.  Bradley,  Fairfield. 

Joseph  W.  Chesebro,  Stonington. 

Frederick  F.  Finney,  Woodbrdge. 

Charles  Griswold,  Guilford. 

Sidney  E.   Hawley,  Brookfield. 

L.  Legrand  Hopkins,  Danbury. 

Ezra  M.  Horton,  Union. 

William  R.  Kurd,   Bristol. 

John  B.  Kendrick,  Wallingford. 

Courtland  Lamb,  Ledyard. 

Albert  H.  Lanphere,  Waterford. 

Thurston  B.  Lillibridge,  Norwich. 

Wm.  W.  B.  Markham,  Chatham. 

George  W.  Mitchell,  Southbury. 

Newton  Osborn,  Newington. 

Ransom  F.  Smith,  Cornwall. 

Frederick  Stockman,  Bethlehem. 

Charles  A.  Wheaton,  Eastford. 

Benjamin  C.  Woodin,  Hamden. 

1889 
State   Officer: 

E.  Stevens  Henry,  Vernon, 
Treasurer. 
Senators : 

O.  Vincent  Coffin,  Middletown, 

George  E.  Keeney,  Somers. 
Representatives : 

Julius  H.  Barnard,  Colebrook. 

Trescott  C.  Barnes,   New  Hartford. 

Edwin  I.  Bell,  Portland. 

Lodowick  Bill,   Lyme. 

Fisk  Brainard,  Chatham. 

Walter  S.  Carpenter,  Putnam. 

Henry  T.  Child,  Woodstock. 

Myron  L.   Cooley,   Southbury. 


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George  W.   Dains,   Harwinton. 
Edward  W.  Dewey,  Granby. 
Alfred  E.  Hammer,  Branford. 
George  A.  Haskell,  Griswold. 
Sidney  E.  Hawley,   Brookfield. 
Walter  S.  Hewitt,  Hebron. 
George  G.  Hungerford,  Sherman. 
John   B.  Kendrick,  Wallingford. 
Frederick  E.  Knapp,  New  Fairfield. 
Joseph    Peabody,   Waterford. 
Arthur  B.  Porter,  Coventry. 
Robert  A.  Potter,  Plainville. 
Robert  S.  Purdy,  Darien. 
David  Russ,  Ashford. 
William  W.  Sunderland,  Danbury. 
Dwight  W.  Tuttle,  East  Haven. 
Jason  R.  Viets,  East  Granby. 
Thomas  Walker,  Southington. 
Silas  B.  Wheeler,  Stonington. 
William  H.  Wright,  Killingworth. 

1891 
State   Officer: 

E.  Stevens  Henry,  Vernon, 
Treasurer. 
Senators : 

George  W.  Dains,  Harwinton. 

Noble  E.  Pierce,  Bristol. 
Representatives : 

Roscius   Back,   Union. 

Ira  G.   Bailey,  Haddam. 

John   G.   Bromley,   Lisbon. 

Frank  S.   Brown,  Washington. 

Cassius  S.  Chase,  Killingly. 

Frederick  H.  Dunham,  Chatham. 

William  L.   Egleston,   Norfolk. 

George  E.  Emmons,  Morris. 

Frank  W.  Fitch,  Preston. 

Charles  F.  Green,  Goshen. 

Gardiner  Greene,  Norwich.    , 

Linus  H.  Hall,  Wallingford. 

William   B.   Hawley,   Sherman. 

Franklin  P.  Hayes,  Bethlehem. 

John  Keough,  Bloomfield. 

Nathaniel  L.  Knowlton.   Ashford. 

James  P.  Little,  Columbia. 

William  T.  Marsh,  Litchfield. 

William  V.  McNerney,  Vernon. 

George  W.  Mitchell,  Southbury. 

Alvah  Morgan,  Salem. 

Michael  J.  Moroney,  Burlington. 

A.   D.   Parmelee,   Killingworth. 

Arthur  B.  Porter,  Coventry. 

Robert  S.  Purdy,  Darien. 

George  T.  Sanger,  Plainfield. 

Francis   S.   Skiff,   Cornwall. 

Charles  L.  Spooner,  Kent. 

Cyrus  H.  Stewart,  N.  Stonington. 

Robert  M.  Thompson,  Lyme. 

Richard  H.  Tucker,    Old  Saybrook. 

Dwight  W.  Tuttle,  East  Haven. 

Frank  L.  Wellman,  Durham. 

Silas  B.  Wheeler,  Stonington. 

Henry  M.  White,  Torrington. 


State   Officer: 


1893 


John  J.   Phelan,  Bridgeport, 
Secretary. 
Senator : 

George  E.  Keeney.  Somers. 

Noble  E.  Pierce,  Bristol. 
Representatives : 

Ira  G.  Bailey,   Haddam. 

William  C.  Blanchard,  Lebanon. 

John  G.  Bromley,  Lisbon. 

Arthur  B.  Calkins,  East  Lyme. 

Charles  H.  Calor,  Plainville. 

Myron   N.   Clark,   Norfolk. 

Herbert  L.   Culver,   Colebrook. 

Stephen  D.  Curtis,  Ashford. 

Erwin  S.  Fairchild,  Trumbull. 

Willis   W.   Hall,   Marlborough. 

William    Hamersley,   Hartford. 

Irving  W.  Hammond,  Hampton. 

Edwin    H.   Harris,   Salem. 

William  B.  Hawley,  Sherman. 

Albert  A.  Hubbard,  No.  Canaan. 

Ardon  L.  Judd,   Stratford. 

John  D.  Luby,  Burlington. 

William  N.  Markham,  Chatham. 

William  T.  Marsh,  Litchfield. 

William  V.  McNerney,  Vernon. 

John  D.  Moffitt,  Scotland. 

Elisha  G.  Morton,  East  Windsor. 

N.    !L.    Parmelee,    Killingworth. 

Arthur  B.  Porter,  Coventry. 

Fred   Prentice,   Hebron. 

Caleb  F.  Rose,  East  Haddam. 

George  T.  Sanger,  Plainfield. 

Harvey  Tucker,  Simsbury. 

Curtis  B.  Warner,  New  Hartford. 

Arthur  G.  Wheeler,  Stonington. 

Theodore  F.  Wheeler,  Southbury. 

George  J.  Whipple.   Colebrook. 

Frank  B.  Wood,  Cornwall. 

1895 
State   Officer: 

O.  Vincent  Coffin,  Middletown, 
Governor. 
Senators : 

Benjamin  H.  Lee,  New  London. 

James  P.  Little,  Columbia. 
Representatives : 

Sereno  Alderman.  Burlington. 

Samuel  J.  Allen,  East  Windsor. 

Samuel  M.  Bailey.  Wolcott. 

George  E.  Bidwell,  East  Granby. 

Francis  H.  Bird,  Pomfret. 

John  A.  Carrier,  Chatham. 

John  S.  Champlin,  Coventry. 

Edwin  H.  Clark,  Morris. 

John  E.  Fahey,  Vernon. 

Charles  E.  Ford,  Canaan. 

Arlan  P.  Francis,  Newington. 

Dwight  S.  Fuller,  Suffield. 


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Gardiner  Greene,  Norwich. 
George  P.  Hill,  East  Lyme. 
Elbert  O.  Hull,  Monroe. 
Frank  R.  Jackson,  Woodstock. 
Frederick  A.  Jacobs,  Killingly. 
Gurden  B.  Marcy,  Eastford. 
Ernest   A.   Markham,   Durham. 
William  T.  Marsh,  Litchfield. 
F.    H.    Mayberry,    E.    Hartford. 
Alvah  Morgan,  Salem. 
Lucius  B.   Morgan,   Plainfield. 
Henry  B.  Noyes,  Stonington. 
Benjamin  F.  Page,  Harwinton. 
F.    H.    Parmelee,    New    London. 
N.   S.    Parmelee,   Killingworth. 
John  L.  Roberts,  Kent. 
Amasa  P.  Taber,  Plainfield. 
George  Wallace,  Union. 
Edward  R.  Wooster,  Bridgewater. 


State  Officer 


1897 


Charles   W.   Grosvenor,   Pomfret, 
Treasurer. 
Senators : 

Lucius  Brown,  Norwich. 

Samuel   A.   Herman,   Winchester. 

Benjamin  H.  Lee,  New  London. 

Dwight  W.  Tuttle,  East  Haven. 
Representatives : 

Edwin   S.   Agard,  Tolland. 

S.  Langdon  Alvord,  Winchester. 

Harry  E.  Back,  Union. 

Richard  Baldwin,  Plymouth. 

John  H.  Ball,  Durham. 

Orren   W.   Bates,   Sterling. 

Charles  F.  Boswell,  Preston. 

Daniel  E.  Bradley,  Berlin. 

Charles  H.  Brown,  Putnam. 

Dale    D.    Butler,    Middletown. 

Arthur  B.  Calkins,  East  Lyme. 

Robert  N.  Cochrane,  Milford. 

Edward  M.  Day,  Colchester. 

Iverson  C.  Fanton,  Weston. 

E.  Hart  Geer,  Lyme. 

Charles    E.    Graham,    Orange. 

Addison  J.   Greenslit,  Hampton. 

George  Gregory,  Darien. 

Marcus  A.   Griffin,   Granby. 

Donald  M.  Gunn,  Groton. 

Edwin  L.  Heath,  Vernon. 

Samuel  Hodgkinson,  Wallingford. 

Edward  H.  Hotchkiss,  Torrington. 

Dwight  L.  Humiston,  Bethany. 

George  F.  Humphrey,  Bloomfield. 

Frederick  A.  Jacobs,  Killingly. 

Frederick  C.  Juul,  Wellington. 

Walter   Kingsley,    Plainfield. 

John  M.  Leach,   Stafford. 

Clarence  F.  Loomis,  N.  Hartford. 

George  A.  Mills,  Lebanon. 

Albert   Morgan.   Salem. 

Dan.  A.   Murphy,   New  Fairfield. 


Herbert  E.  Parmelee,  Guilford. 
Robert  H.  Perkins,  Warren. 
Charles  H.  Rich,  East  Haddam. 
Matthew  H.  Rogers,  Bridgeport. 
Edward  W.  Seeley,  Roxbury. 
John   O.   Shares,   Hamden. 
Edwin  J.  Sheldon,  Suffield. 
John  S.  Usher,  Tolland. 
A.  R.  Wadsworth,  Farmington. 
J.  Frank  Welles,  Wethersfield. 
Samuel  G.  Winchester,  Burlington. 
William  S.  Wortman,  Bethel. 

1899 
Senator: 

Frank  R.  Jackson,  Woodstock. 
Representatives : 

Richard  J.  Beebe,  Stafford. 

Charles  D.  Bent,  Enfield. 

Moses  Chapman,  Montville. 

Edgar  A.  Clarke,  New  Hartford. 

Henry  I.  Clark,  Old  Saybrook. 

William  Conklin,  Salisbury. 

John  H.   Davis,   Hamden. 

Frank   S.   DeWolf,   Salem. 

Iverson  C.  Fanton,  Weston. 

Lucius    W.    Fox,    Harwinton. 

Charles  A.  Gates,  Windham. 

Frank  H.  Hinckley,  Stonington. 

Samuel  Hodgkinson,  Wallingford. 

Ebenezer  A.  Hoyt,  Ridgefield. 

Franklin  V.  Kibbe,  Somers. 

Fred.    E.    Knapp,    New    Fairfield. 

Albert  H.  Lanphere,  Waterford. 

James  R.  Lanyan,  Cheshire. 

George  H.  Maxson,  Stonington 

John   H   Metgs,   Madison. 

Charles  H.  Moore,  New  Britain. 

Lawrence  Mullaley,  Windsor. 

Daniel  M.  Nichols,  Trumbull. 

Patrick    O'Donnell,    Cornwall. 

Clarence   F.   Osborn,   Norwalk. 

James  B.  Palmer,  Lisbon. 

Frederick  N.   Porter,   Bethel. 

Norris  W.  Rathbun,  E.  Haddam. 

Watson   E.  Rice,   Stamford. 

Henry   Roberts,   Hartford. 

Melvin  E.  Snow,  Norfolk. 

Hugh    Stirling,    Bridgeport. 

Addison  C.  Taintor,  Colchester. 

Edwin  S.  Thomas,  Orange. 

William  H.  Vining,  Colebrook. 

A.    R.   Wadsworth,    Farmington. 

Francis  G.  Waldo,  Hebron. 

Andrew  E.  Warner,  Chester. 

Robert  E.  Webster,  Union. 

Clifton  H.  Wright,  Ashford. 

Edwin  O.  Wright,  Goshen. 

1901 
State  Officer: 
George    P.    McLean,    Simsbury, 
Governor. 


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Senators : 
Wallace   S.  Allis,   Norwich. 
Charles  H.  Brown,  Putnam. 
James  R.  Lanyon,  Cheshire. 
Henry   Roberts,    Hartford. 
Andrew  J.  Sloper,  New  Britain. 

Representatives : 
Frank  H.  Abbe,  Enfield. 
William  E.  Attwood,  New  Britain. 
Elmore  S.  Banks,  Fairfield. 
Joseph  B.  Banning,  Saybrook. 
Earle  S.  Baxter,  Colebrook. 
James   E.   Beebe,  Lyme. 
Henry  W.  Beecher,  Southbury. 
Charles  D.  Bent,  Enfield. 
Franklin  P.  Brainerd,  Durham. 
Arthur  M.  Brown,  Griswold. 
Arthur  B.  Calkins,  East  Lyme. 
Edgar  T.  Clark,  Milford. 
Marcus  A.  Covell,  Thompson. 
Granville  A.  Durant,  Bethel. 
John  E.  Ellis,  Hebron. 
John  E.  Fahey,  Vernon. 
Charles  A.  Gates,  Windham. 
Frank  Gorham,  Weston. 
Abner  P.  Hayes,  Waterbury. 
Frank  H.  Hinckley,  Stonington. 
Mills  Hungerford,  Sherman. 
George  W.  Keeler,  Cheshire. 
Robert  W.   Keeler,  Wilton. 
John  B.  Kendrick,  Wallingford. 
Joseph  F.  Killeen,  Montville. 
James  E.  A.  Knowlton,  Ashford. 
Albert  H.  Lanphere,  Waterford. 
Walter  A.  Main,  Orange. 
George  H.  Maxson,  Stonington. 
Alvah  Morgan,  Salem. 
Maurice  F.  Mulville,  Norfolk. 
Frederick  H.  Perry,  Chester. 
Charles  H.   Post,  Guilford. 
Arthur  M.  Pratt,  Cornwall. 
Frank  W.  Rising,  Suffield. 
Bradley  W.  Sanford,  Ridgefield. 
J.  Samuel  Seranton,  Madison. 
George  R.  Smith,  Cornwall. 
Sheldon  B.  Smith,  Roxbury. 
William  H.  Smith,  Old  Saybrook. 
Valette   D.    Stearns,   Mansfield. 
Clarence  F.  Stotts,  Hartland. 
J.  White  Sumner,  Bolton. 
Wm.  W.  Thompson,  E.  Windsor. 

E.  Austin  Wadhams,  Goshen. 

A.    R.    Wadsworth,    Farmington. 
Frank  J.  Wales,  Monroe. 
James  R.  Warner,  East  Haddam. 

F.  Ernest  Watkins,  Manchester. 
E.  Frank  White,  No.  Stonington. 
Granville  Whittlesey,   Danbury. 
Samuel  H.  Williams,  Glastonbury. 

IQ02 

(Constitutional   Convention) 
Henry   L.   Bailey,    Groton. 


Irwin  J.  Beardsley,  Kent. 
Arthur  M.  Brown,  Griswold. 
Harley   P.  Buell,   Colchester. 
George  A.  Frink,  Preston. 
Frank  Gorham,  Weston. 
Frank  H.   Hinckley,   Stonington. 
George  E.  Keeney,  Somers. 
John  B.  Kendrick,  Wallingford. 
J.   Henry   King,   Franklin. 
William  N.  Markham,  Chatham. 
John  H.  Meigs,  Madison. 
Schuyler  Merritt,  Stamford. 
Alvah  Morgan,  Salem. 
Noble  E.  Pierce,  Bristol. 
Edwin  C.  Shelton,  Monroe. 
William  H.  Smith,  Old  Saybrook. 
J.  White  Sumner,  Bolton. 

1903 
State  Officers: 
Henry   Roberts,   Hartford, 

Lieutenant-Governor. 
William  A.  King,  Windham, 
Attorney-General. 

Senators : 
Arthur  M.  Brown,  Griswold. 
Eddie  S.  Davis,  Middletown. 
Charles   A.   Gates,   Windham. 
Charles  E.  Graham,  Orange. 
Frederick  A.  Jacobs,  Killingly. 

Representatives : 
Willard  I.  Ailing,  Berlin. 
Elmore  S.   Banks,  Fairfield. 
Oscar  L.  Beardsley,  Huntington. 
Homer  S.   Beers,  Westport. 
Frank  A.  Benedict,  Seymour. 
Wareham  W.  Bentley,  Bozrah. 
Arthur  C.  Bradley,  Weston. 
Arthur  M.  Brainard,  Glastonbury. 
Edward   L.    Clark,   Orange. 
John  M.  Clark,  Chaplin. 
Samuel  P.  Clark,  East  Haddam. 
Michael  J.  Connor,  Enfield. 
Marcus  A.  Covell,  Thompson. 
Andrew  W.  Culver,  Beacon  Falls. 
Thomas  F.  D'Arsey,  Enfield. 
John  H.  Davis^  Preston. 
Frank  H.  Deming,  Hampton. 
Michael  T.  Downes,  Wallingford. 
Daniel   P.  Dunn,  Windham. 
Jacob  Frey,  East  Windsor. 
George  A.  Frink,  Preston. 
Roswell  Grant,  South  Windsor. 
Howard  M.  Guernsey,  Thomaston. 
David    R.   Hawley,    Farmington. 
Allerton  C.  Kibbe,  Ellington. 
William  F.  Kirchberger,  Morris. 
Louis  J.  Korper,  Willington. 
William   E.   LaBelle,   Killingly. 
Everett  J.   Lake,   Hartford. 
Albert  H.  Lanphere,  Waterford. 
James  R.  Lanyon,   Cheshire. 


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Freeman  A.  Libby,  Putnam. 
Frank  T.   Maples,   Norwich. 
Carlos  V.   Mason,   Bristol. 
F.  H.   Mayberry,   E.  Hartford. 
Homer  N.  Neil,  "Wellington. 
Henry  F.  Parker,  Vernon. 
William  F.  Quigg,  Marlborough. 
Watson  E.  Rice,  Stamford. 
Charles  B.  Searle,  Windsor. 
Edwin    C.    Shelton,    Monroe. 
J.  Arthur  Sherwood,  Easton. 
Herbert  K.   Smith,  Hartford. 
Hiram  A.  Smith,  Colebrook. 
Lucius  K.  Stevens,  Clinton. 
Frank   L.    Stiles,    North    Haven. 
Henry  C.  Thresher,  Stafford. 
George  Towne,  Union. 
David  P.  Walden,  Scotland. 
William  H.  Warner,  Woodbridge. 

E.  Frank  White,  No.  Stonington. 

1905 
State  Officers : 

Henry    Roberts,    Hartford, 

Governor. 
William  A.  King,  Windham, 
Attorney-General. 

Senators : 

William  E.  Attwood,  New  Britain. 
D.    Newton    Barney,    Farmington. 
Reuben  S.  Bartlett,  Norwich. 
Austin  I.  Bush,  East  Lyme. 
Alfred  E.  Hammer,  Branford. 
Everett  J.   Lake,   Hartford. 
Matthew  Hogan,  Hartford. 

F.  H.    Mayberry,    E.    Hartford. 
Representatives : 

William  A.  Agard,  Tolland. 
Levi   H.   Apley,   Goshen. 
Amos  H.  Armington,  Killingly. 
Curtiss  B.  Atwood,  Watertown. 
Elmore  S.   Banks,  Fairfield. 
Orren  W.   Bates,   Sterling. 
Wareham  W.  Bentley,  Bozrah. 
Charles  B.  Carlson,  Haddam. 
Herman  M.  Chapin,  N.  Hartford. 
Philo    Cleveland,    Harwinton. 
Michael  J.  Connor,  Enfield. 
Andrew  W.  Culver,  Beacon  Falls. 
John  H.  Davis,  Preston. 
Alton    Farrel,   Ansonia. 
George  T.  Fowler,  No.  Branford. 
William  H.  Geer,  Lebanon. 
George  E.  Goodman,  Bloomfield. 
Constant  W.  Gower,  Hartland. 
Howard  M.  Guernsey,  Thomaston, 
Edward  C.  Hammond,  Waterford. 
George  A.  Hammond,  Putnam. 
Charles  H.  Hanmer,  Wethersfield. 
Luke  W.  Henderson,  Wolcott. 
George  H.  Hewitt,  Lebanon. 
Edward  P.  Hollowell,  Preston. 
Frank  N.  Hoskins,  Simsbury. 
Thomas  Hoyt,   Stamford. 


Frederick  L.  Huntington,  Meriden. 
Charles  S.  Hurlbut,  Tolland. 
Frederick  A.  Ives,  Cheshire. 
George  H.  Johnson,  Morris. 
John  B.  Kibbe,  Somers. 
James   D.   Kimball,  Woodbury. 
Karl  C.  Kulle,  Windsor  Locks. 
Frank  T.  Maples,  Norwich. 
Samuel  J.  Marsh,  Waterbury. 
Charles  R.  Marvin,  Saybrook. 
John  J.  Northrop,  Newtown. 
C.  Henry  Olmsted,  East  Hartford. 
Henry   C.    Parker,   East  Haddam. 
Richard  H.  Pascall,  Portland. 
Lewis  H.  Phelps,  Wallingford. 
William  H.  Phillips,  Chaplin. 
Frank   H.   Raymond,   Hebron. 
Marcus  L.  Reynolds,  Bridgeport. 
Howard  A.  Rix,  Salem. 
Ernest  N.  Robinson,  Durham. 
Emor  A.   Smith,   Hartford. 
Myron  W.   Sperry,  Bolton. 
Evelyn   E.   Stevens,   Clinton. 
Walter   S.   Vail,   Franklin. 
Charles   F.  Wanger,   Salisbury. 
William  H.  Warner,  Woodbridge. 

1907 

State  Officer: 
Everett  J.  Lake,   Hartford, 
Lieutenant-Governor. 

Senators : 

Harley    P.    Buell,    Colchester. 

John  M.  Donnelly,  Bridgeport. 

Alton  Farrel,  Ansonia. 

Charles  A.  Gates,  Windham. 

Samuel  Hodgkinson,  Wallingford. 

Flavel  S.  Luther,  Hartford. 

Thomas  J.   Spellacy,  Hartford. 
Representatives : 

William  E.  Albin,  Westport. 

Frank  E.  Allen,  Scotland. 

John  W.  Allen,  New  Britain. 

Philip  C.  Arnold,  Chatham. 

Alfred  H.  Auger,  Middlefield. 

Telley   E.  Babcock,   Plainfield. 

Roscius   Back,   Union. 

Oscar  D.  Baker,  Ashford. 

Elmore  S.  Banks,  Fairfield. 

Frank  C.  Barnes,  Plymouth 

Webster  E.  Burbank,  Suffield. 

Alfred  D.  Cady,  Plainville. 

Charles   B.   Carlson,  Haddam. 

Roswell  Chamberlain,  Hebron. 

Marshall  E.  Charter,  Ellington. 

Sherman  Cogswell,  Washington. 

Michael  J.  Connor,  Enfield. 

George  A.  Cosgrove,  Wellington. 

Fred.   E.  Dickerman.  Winchester. 

Albert   P.  Dossin,   Meriden 

William   H.   Doyle,  Litchfield. 

Eli  Gledhill,  Stonington. 

Carlos  J.  Gurley,  Willington. 


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John   W.  Hale,   Cromwell. 
James   B.   Hall,   Hartland. 
Charles  J.  Heineman,  Meriden. 
David  H.  Husband,  Marlborough. 
Arthur  M.  Keith,  Eastford. 
David  D.  Kyle,   New  Milford. 
Josiah  B.  Lougee,  Canton.  ' 

William  M.  Low,  Norwalk. 
William  J.  Malone,  Bristol. 
William  T.   Marsh,  Litchfield. 
Samuel  N.  Morgan,  Colchester. 
J.  Edward  Newton,  Durham. 
Matthew    O'Brien,    Norfolk. 
William   Oliver,   Cornwall. 
William  E.   Page,   Kent. 
Charles  J.  Parsons,  E.  Windsor. 
Charles  H.  Peck,  Stratford. 
Charles  A.  Perkins,  Lebanon. 
Sidney  S.  Piatt,  Southbury. 
David  M.  Plumb,  Prospect. 
Henry  A.   Pratt,   Essex. 
Frederick  H.  Quintard,  Norwalk. 
Edward  P.  Rice,  Granby. 
H.    Richardson,    N.    Stonington. 
Albert  F.  Rockwell,  Bristol. 
Michael    F.    Shea,    Canterbury. 
Ernest  W.  Smith,  Hartford. 
Frank  C.   Smith,   Middletown. 
Albert   L.    Sperry,   Woodbridge. 
John   S.   Sullivan,   Bozrah. 
George  W.  Thayer,  Union. 
Charles    J.    Thorp,    Trumbull. 
Charles  H.  Tibbits,  Wallingford. 
Ira  D.  Tucker,  Simsbury. 
Charles  H.  Weber,  Vernon. 
William  C.  Welton,  Warren. 
William  W.  Welton,  Bridgewater. 
Edgar  M.  Wheaton,  Putnam. 
Joseph  F.  Wooster,  Goshen. 
Nymphas  M.  Wright,  Hartland. 
Luther  K.  Zabriskie,   Preston. 

1909. 
State  Officer: 
Matthew  H.  Rogers,  Norwalk, 
Secretary. 

Senators : 
Walter  L.  Goodwin,  Hartford. 
Charles  J.  Heineman,  Meriden. 
Flavel  S.  Luther,  Hartford. 
Albert  W.  Phillips,  Derby. 
Frank  L.  Stiles,  North  Haven. 

Representatives : 
Elmore  S.  Banks,  Fairfield. 
Joseph  Barr,  Suffield. 
Frank  H.  Brown,  No.  Stonington. 
Thomas  E.  Burroughs,  Saybrook. 
Charles  P.  Bushnell,  Norwich. 
F.  Olin  Chaffee,  Woodstock. 
Samuel  R.  Chidsey,  East  Haven. 
Charles  E.  Curtiss,   Simsbury. 
Hiram  Davis,  Ridgefield. 


H.  S.  Dormitzer,  Woodbury. 
Salvator   D'Esopo,   Hartford. 
Cornelius  R.  Duffie,  Morris. 
Daniel  P.  Dunn,  Windham. 
Ambrose  J.  Fenn,  Harwinton. 
Robert  M.  Fenn,  Middlebury. 
John  F.  Fields,  Bozrah. 
George  Forster,  Vernon. 
Arthur  R.  Gillette,  Hebron. 
Arthur  T.  Grosvenor,  Pomfret. 
John   P.   Grosvenor,   Pomfret. 
Abner  P.  Hayes,  Waterbury. 
Horace  L.  Hine,  Cheshire. 
Calvin  B.  Humphrey,  Colebrook. 
Aaron   Johnson,   Manchester. 
Herbert  C.  Keech,   Killingly. 
David  D.  Kyle,  New  Milford. 
Benedict  E.  Lyons,  Thomaston. 
Chester  S.  Maine,  No.  Stonington, 
William  J.  Malone,  Bristol. 
Albert  G.  Martin,  Stonington. 
Lewis  McLaughlin,  Stafford. 
Andrew  G.  Morse,  Eastford. 
Harry  H.  North,  Goshen. 
Charles  B.  Northrop,  Ridgefield. 
Wilbur  F.  Parker,  Meriden. 
John    W.    Payne,    Griswold. 
David  M.   Plumb,   Prospect. 
Robert  L.  Quinley,  Stafford. 
Frederick  H.  Quintard,  Norwalk. 
Melancthon    Riddick,    Woodstock. 
Albert  F.  Rockwell,  Bristol. 
John  H.  Root,  Norfolk. 
Clifton  D.  Rosha,  Bethany. 
John  W.  Schumacher,  Ansonia. 
Charles  W.  Scovill,  Haddam. 
Gershom  C  Simpson,  E.  Haddam. 
Frank  C.   Smith,   Middletown. 
Guilford    Smith,    Windham. 
Edmund  C.  Spencer,  Old  Saybrook. 
Charles  H.  Strong,  Chatham. 
J.  White  Sumner,  Bolton. 
James  F.  Thurston,  Preston. 
Lyman  T.  Tingier,  Vernon. 
Wilbur  F.  Tomlinson,  Danbury. 
Fred  J.  Vaill.  Goshen. 
Charles  E.  Williamson,  Darien. 
Roscoe  H.  Wright,  Ashford. 

191 1 
State  Officers : 
Costello    Lippitt,    Norwich, 

Treasurer. 
Matthew   H.   Rogers,   Bridgeport,. 
Secretary. 

Senators : 
George  A.  Hammond,  Putnam. 
Peter   Lawlor,   Waterbury. 
Charles  F.  Mitchell,  New  Haven. 
Wilbur  F.   Parker,   Meriden. 
William  J.  Pierce,  Hartford. 
Thomas  J.  Spellacy,  Hartford. 


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Representatives : 

John  S.  Addis,  New  Milford. 
Elmore   S.   Banks,   Fairfield. 
Joseph  Barr,  Suffield. 
Nathan  P.  Beardsley,  Roxbury. 
D.   Frank   Bedient,   Ridgefield. 
George  E.  Bidwell,  East  Granby. 
Asa    Brainard,    Colchester. 
Charles  H.  Calor,  Plainville. 
Joseph  W.  Chesebro,  Stonington. 
Samuel  R.  Chidsey,  East  Haven. 
Stiles  M.   Clarke,   Monroe. 
Daniel   P.  Dunn,  Windham. 
Frederick   G.  Eberle,   Hartford. 
Joseph  R.  Ensign,  Simsbury. 
Charles  W.  Evarts,   Milford. 
John  F.  Fields,  Bozrah. 
Christian   F.   Fox,   Meriden. 
Edward  A.  Gaylord,  Hartland. 
Milo  C.  Griffin,  Granby. 
Chester  Hart,  Barkhamsted. 
Aaron   Johnson,    Manchester. 
George  M.  Keeler,  Cheshire. 
Daniel  J.  Kelley,  Saybrook. 
James  E.  Kelsey,  Westbrook. 
Winfield    S.   Kenyon,   Woodstock. 
Nathaniel  L.  Knowlton,  Ashford. 
Houston   Landon,   Old   Saybrook. 
Albert  H.  Lanphere,  Waterford. 
Ernest   L.   Latimer,    Norwich. 
Arthur  R.  McOrmond,  Ansonia. 
Joshua  Meltzer,  Bridgeport. 
Sidney  V.  Osborn,  Branford. 
Hollis   H.   Palmer,   Preston. 
Charles   H.   Peck,   Stratford. 
Charles  M.   Perrin,  Woodstock. 
William  H.  Phillips.  Hampton. 
Burton  D.  Potter,  Hamden. 
Charles  A.  Proulx,  Union. 
John  H.  Reid,  Bethel. 
Frank  S.   Richmond,  Thompson. 
Samuel   Russell,  Jr.,  Middletown. 
Thomas  L.  Shea,  Woodbury. 
George  Simpson,  Enfield. 
Guilford   Smith,  Windham. 
Arthur   L.    Spicer,    Willington. 
Andrew   Steele,  East  Windsor. 
Frank  L.  Stephens,  N.  Hartford. 
John  S.  Sullivan,  Bozrah. 
D.  Welton  Thompson,  Bethlehem. 
William   E.   Thorns,   Waterbury. 
Lyman,  T.  Tingier,  Vernon. 
John  M.  Wadhams,  Goshen. 
Eugene  G.  Walker,  Union. 
Charles  E.  Williamson,  Darien. 
K.  Herman  Wollmann,  Burlington. 
J.    M.    Woodhouse,    Wethersfield. 

1913 

State  Officers : 
Daniel  P.  Dunn,  Windham, 

Comptroller. 
Lyman  T.  Tingier,  Vernon, 

Lieutenant-Governor. 


Senators : 
Edward  B.  Gaylord,  Winchester. 
George  H.  Johnson,  Morris. 
George  M.  Landers,  New  Britain. 
Frederick   M.   McCarthy,   Ansonia. 
John  F.  McDonough,  Naugatuck. 
John  .F.  McGrath,  Waterbury 
Michael  J.  Quinn,  New  Haven. 
John  M.  Wadhams,  Goshen. 
Joseph  H.  Whitcomb,  Bridgeport. 

Representatives : 
John  S.  Addis,  New  Milford. 
Amos  H.  Armington,  Killingly. 
Conrad  G.  Bacon,  Middletown. 
Walter    M.    Barnum,   Kent. 
Marshall   Beach,   Monroe. 
D.    Frank    Bedient,    Ridgefield. 
Homer  V.  Beebe,  Mansfield. 
John   M.   Bessette,  Brooklyn. 
Edward  Bragg,  East  Hartford. 
William  A.  Bree,  New  Haven. 
Frank  H.  Brown,  No.  Stonington. 
Allen  B.  Burdick,  Preston. 
William   A.   Carroll,    Norfolk. 
Lyman  P.  Case,  Winchester. 
Joseph  W.  Chesebro,   Stonington. 
Charles  O.  Clark,  Windsor. 
Thomas  H.  Collins,  Farmington. 
George  Cook,  Goshen. 
Richard  F.  Cuddihy,  Derby. 
William  H.  Dawley,  Voluntown. 
William  T.  Delaney,  Norwich. 
Edwin  R.  Dimock,  Tolland. 
Charles  W.  Evarts,  Milford. 
James  E.  Fagan,  Bloomfield. 
Isaac  G.  Geer,  Ledyard. 
Elmer  E.  Hall,  Marlborough. 
Franklyn  P.  Hayes,  Bethlehem. 
Thomas  L.  Haynes.  Old  Lyme. 
Bernard  E.  Higgins,  Torrington. 
Thomas   J.    Hine,   Ansonia. 
Frederick  W.  Hoxie,  Franklin. 
Henry  H.  Hunt,  Glastonbury. 
Frederick   C.  Jones,   S.  Windsor. 
Bernard  A.  Kelley,  Ellington. 
Timothy  Kennedy,  Windsor. 
William  F.  Kirchberger,  Morris. 
Houston  Landon,  Old  Saybrook. 
Henry  P.  Lane,  Barkhamsted. 
Albert  H.  Lanphere,  Waterford. 
Lewis   Latimer,   Salem. 
William  H.  Lewis,  Westbrook. 
James  M.  Lynch,  Waterbury. 
William  M.  Maltbie,  Granby. 
James  R.  May,  New  London. 
John  H.  McMurray,  Bridgeoort. 
Prentiss  W.  Morse,  Woodstock. 
Charles   F.    Newton,   Granby. 
Herbert  C.  Nickerson,  E.  Haven. 
Dennis    O'Brien,    Portland. 
Arthur  B.  O'Keefe,  Orange. 
Charles   W.    Pierson,   Lyme. 
Joseph  Plessis,  Putnam. 


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Louis  J.  Pons,  Roxbury. 
Burton  D.  Potter,  Hamden. 
Albert  E.  Rathbone,  Hebron. 
Allen   W.   Rathbun,   Groton. 
Frank  S.  Richmond,  Thompson. 
Harry  Rider,  South  Norwalk. 
Lucius   C.   Ryce,  West   Hartford. 
Hiram   A.    Smith,   Colebrook. 
Julius  C.  Stremlau,  Meriden. 
Edward   B.    Sullivan,   Guilford. 
William    E.    Thorns,    Waterbury. 
John  W.  Treadwell,  Trumbull. 
Eugene  G.  Walker,  Union. 
Lewis   C.  Wilcox,   Guilford. 
Edward  R.  Wooster,  Bridgewater. 
Eugene  A.   Wyant,   Oxford. 

1915 
Senators : 

S.    Landon    Alvord,    Winchester. 
Hubert  E.  Bishop,  Norwalk. 
William  A.   Bree,  New  Haven. 
William  H.  Comley,  Jr.,  Bridgeport. 
Charles  W.  Evarts,  Milford. 
Charles  J.  Heineman,  Meriden. 
George  W.  Klett,  New  Britain. 
William  H.  Lewis,  Westbrook. 
Thomas  J.  Molloy,  Hartford. 
Dwight   W.   Tuttle,    East   Haven. 
John  M.  Wadhams,  Goshen. 

Representatives : 

John  S.  Addis,  New  Milford. 
Walter   A.    Allen,   Willington. 
William  J.  Atchison,   Sherman. 
Alfred  B.  Aubrey,  Meriden. 
Joseph  D.  Austin,  Ledyard. 
Harry  E.  Back,  Killingly. 
Oscar    D.    Baker,    Ashford. 
Earle  A.   Barker,  Branford. 
William    J.    Barker,    Canterbury. 
Harry  R.  Bartlett,  Tolland. 
John    N.    Brooks,    Torrington. 
Benjamin    Brown,    Norfolk. 
Herbert   A.   Chittenden,   Granby. 
Edgar  T.  Clark,  Milford. 
John  M.  Claxton,  Torrington. 
Charles    T.    Crandall,    Groton. 
Harry  N.  Curtiss,  Simsbury. 
Tyler    D.    Davidson,    Bethanv. 
William  M.  Foord,  Stamford. 
George  B.  French,  Essex. 
William  J.   Galvin,   Hartford 
Joseph  H.  Glasson,  Bristol. 
Lyle    C.    Gray,    No.    Stonington. 
Roger  M.  Griswold,  Berlin. 
Burton  E.  Hoskins,  Barkhamsted. 
George  C.  Hosford,  Thomaston. 
Ernest  M.  Howard,  Bolton. 
Jesse  A.  James,  Newtown. 
Charles  H.  Kenyon,  Groton. 
Frederick  E.  Knapp,  N.  Fairfield. 
Fred  H.   Lawton,   Canton. 
Clayton  A.  Lord,  Hebron. 


Charles  J.  Martin,  Orange. 
William    B.    Mitchell,    Preston. 
Herbert  C.  Nickerson,  E.  Haven. 
Dennis    O'Brien,    Portland. 
Charles  T.   Osborn,   Hartland. 
Sidney  V.  Osborn,  Branford. 
William  E.  Page,  Kent. 
Clayton  E.  Peck,  Cheshire. 
Harley  Perkins,  Warren. 
James  H.   Perry,  Ridgefield. 
Charles  W.  Pierson,  Lyme. 
William  N.  Pinney,  Ellington. 
Joseph  Plessis,  Putnam. 
William  F.  Quigg,  Chatham. 
Frederick  A.  Rathbun,  Hebron. 
Lee   F.   Revere,   North   Branford. 
Benjamin    R.    Ritch,    Woodstock. 
J.  Frank  Rogers,  Salem. 
Winfield    S.   Rogers,   Litchfield. 
Frederick  P.  Sherman,  Monroe. 
Francis  S.  Skiff,  Canaan. 
Edmund  C.  Spencer,  Old  Saybrook. 
Edward  J.  Stanford,  New  Haven. 
Andrew   Steele,  East  Windsor. 
John  W.  Treadwell,  Trumbull. 
Tressillian   G.   Tucker,   Columbia. 
Daniel    W.    Williams,    Colchester. 
Charles   E.   Williamson,    Darien. 
Ralph  K.  Woodward,   Sharon. 
Alfred  H.  Wright,  Goshen. 

1917 

Senators : 
John    N.    Brooks,   Torrington. 
John    Y.    Caldwell,    Bridgeport. 
Frank  H.  Hinckley,  Stonington. 
Henry  H.  Hunt,  Glastonbury. 
George  W.  Klett,  New  Britain. 
James  R.  May,  New  London. 
William  F.  Quigg,  East  Hampton. 
Charles  E.  Williamson,  Ds^^ 

Representatives : 

Harry  E.  Back,  Killingly. 
Earle  A.   Barker,   Branford. 
David  L.   Brockett,   Suffield. 
Edward  O.  Buck,  Wethersfield. 
John  J.  Burke,  East  Hartford. 
Charles   H.   Camp,   Brookfield. 
John  M.  Claxton, 'Torrington. 
Wallace   S.   Coker,   East  Haven. 
Wilbur  W.  Cooper,  Colebrook. 
Frederic  J.   Corbett,  Hartford. 
Richard   Covert,  New   Britain. 
Henry  P.  Crawford,  Greenwich. 
Jesse   Dearden,   Tolland. 
Fred.    H.    Dunham,    E.    Hampton. 
Frank    P.    Fenton,    Windham. 
William   M.   Foord,   Litchfield. 
Walter  L.  Frazier,  Barkhamsted. 
Addison  E.  Frink,  Andover. 
Charles   S.  Gates,   Old   Saybrook. 
Joseph  H.   Glasson,  Bristol. 
Frederick  W.  Goodrich,  Portland. 


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Bert  C.  Hallock,  Mansfield. 
Edward  W.  Hazen,  Haddam. 
Thomas  H.  Holian,  Newtown. 
Arthur  M.  Keefe,  Hebron. 
R.  Leland  Keeney,  Somers. 
Frederick  E.  Knapp,  N.  Fairfield. 
James  E.  A.  Knowlton,  Ashford. 
Horace  G.  Lewis,  No.  Stonington. 
John  L.  Mahoney,  Oxford. 
Wm.    E.    Markham,    E.    Hampton. 
Patrick  A.  Marren,  Derby. 
Charles  J.    Martin,   Orange. 
Henry  Martin,  Tolland. 
John    O.    Northway.    Colebrook. 
Sidney  V.  Osborn,  Branford. 
Ernest  L.   Palmer,  East  Granby. 


Eli  S.  Roberts,  Bridgewater. 
Carl  H.  Rogers,  Salem. 
Charles  B.  Russ,   Chaplin. 
Frederick  P.  Sherman,  Monroe. 
George  H.   Stone,  N.  Stonington. 
George  A.  Sullivan,  Guilford. 
Charles  T.   Swanson,  Cornwall. 
Carlyle  C.  Thomson,  W.  Hartford. 
George  R.  Towne,  Union. 
Lester  F.  Turney,  Windsor. 
Eli    Wakeman,    Weston. 
Thomas    Walker,    Southington. 
George  Weigold,  Torrington. 
Hiram   B.   West,   Norwalk. 
Charles   H.  Williams,    Plainfield. 
William  M.  Wooding,  Bethany. 


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APPENDIX. 

LENGTH  OF  SESSIONS  OF  THE 
GENERAL  ASSEMBLY. 


Since  the  operation  of  the  amendment  to  the  Constitution  of  1884  providing 
for  biennial  sessions,  the  General  Assembly  has  convened  and  adjourned  as 
follows : 

In 


1887 

Met 

January 

5th 

1889 

<< 

" 

9th 

1891 

" 

i< 

7th 

1803 

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4th 

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9th 

18Q7 

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6th 

1899 

it 

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4th 

1901 

" 

it 

9th 

1903 

M 

<« 

7th 

1905 

it 

4th 

1907 

it 

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9th 

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Under  the  provisions  of  Article  XXXV  of  the  Constitution,  adopted  191 1- 
1912:  "The  General  Assembly  shall  adjourn  sine  die  not  later  than  the  first 
Wednesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  June  following  its  organization." 


LEGAL  HOLIDAYS  IN  CONNECTICUT 


New  Year's  Day January  first 

Lincoln  Day,  February  twelfth 

Washington's  Birthday,  February  twenty-second 

Memorial  Day, May  thirtieth 

Independence  Day,    July  fourth 

Labor  Day,  First  Monday  of  September 

Columbus  Day,    October  twelfth 

Christmas  Day December  twenty-fifth 

And  the  day  designated  by  the  Governor  as  a  day  of  Fasting  and  Prayer, 
customarily  Good  Friday;  and  the  day  designated  by  the  Governor  as  a  day  of 
Thanksgiving,  customarily  the  last  Thursday  of  November. 

176 


CONNECTICUT  TOWNS  IN  THE  ORDER  OF  THEIR 

ESTABLISHMENT  SINCE  1819;  WITH  THE 

ORIGIN  OF  THEIR  NAMES. 


Salem,  named  from  Salem,  Mass.,  and  inc.  as  New  Salem,  from  Colchester,  Lyme 

and  Montville,  May,  1819. 
Darien,  inc.  from  Stamford,  May,  1820,  and  named  from  the  Isthmus  of  Darien. 
Bridgeport,  name  descriptive,  1800;  inc.  from  Fairfield  and  Stratford  May,  1821. 
Chaplin,  society,  named  1809  from  its  deacon,  Benj.  Chaplin;  inc.  from  Mansfield 

and  Hampton,  May,  1822. 
Orange,  inc.  from  Milford  and  New  Haven,  May,  1822,  and  named  from  Wm.  of 

Orange  (III.  of  Eng.). 
Manchester,  inc.  from  East  Hartford,  May,  1823,  and  named  from  Manchester, 

Eng.  because  of  manufacturing. 
Monroe,  inc.  from  Huntington  May,  1823,  and  named  from  Pres.  James  Monroe. 
Madison,  inc.  from  Guilford  May,  1826,  and  named  from  Pres.  James  Madison. 
Prospect,  inc.  from  Cheshire  and  Waterbury,  May,  1827;  named  as  fine  lookout 

place. 
Avon,  inc.  from  Farmington  May,  1830,  and  named  from  Avon  river  at  Strat- 

ford-on-Avon. 
North  Branford,  Named  as  society,   1768;  inc.  from  Branford,  May,   1831. 
Bethany,  named  as  parish,  1762;  Heb.  =  house  of  dates;  inc.  from  Woodbridge 

May,  1832. 
Bloomfield,  inc.   from  Windsor,  Farmington  and  Simsbury,   1835 ;   named   from 

a  Hartford  family. 
Westport,  inc.  from  Fairfield,  Norwalk  and  Weston  May,  1835  J  name  descriptive. 
Chester,   parish    1640;    named   from   Chester   in    Cheshire;    inc.    from   Saybrook 

May,  1836. 
Ledyard,  inc.   from  Groton   May,   1836;   named   from   Col.  Wm.  Ledyard,   com- 
mander at  Fort  Griswold,  Groton,  1781. 
Clinton,  inc.  from  Killingworth  May,  1838,  and  named  from  Gov.  Dewitt  Clinton 

of  N.  Y. 
East  Lyme,  named  1816;  inc.  from  Lyme  and  Waterford  May,  1839. 
Westbrook,  parish  named  1810  as  west  parish  of  Saybrook;  inc.  from  Saybrook, 

May,  1840. 
Portland,  inc.  from  Chatham  May,  1841,  and  named  from  Portland,  Dorsetshire, 

famed  for  quarries. 
Rocky  Hill,  name  given  Stepney  parish  from  a  hill  in  it,  1826;  inc.  from  Wethers- 
field  May,  1843. 
Naugatuck,  inc.    from   Bethany,   Oxford   and  Waterbury  May,    1844;    Algonkin 

name  =  one  tree. 
Easton,  inc.  from  Weston  May,  1845;  named  as  east  part  of  Weston. 
South  Windsor,  inc.  and  named  from  East  Windsor,  May,  1845. 
Eastford,  named  as  east  parish  of  Ashford,  1777;  inc.  from  Ashford  May,  1847. 
Andover,  parish  named  1747,  perhaps  from  Andover,  Mass. ;  inc.  from  Coventry 

&  Hebron,  May,   1848. 
New  Britain,  parish  named  1754  from  (Great)   Britain ;  inc.  from  Berlin  May, 

1850. 

12  177 


Seymour,  inc.  from  Derby  May,  1850,  and  named  from  Gov.  Thomas  H.  Sey- 
mour. 

Cromwell,  inc.  from  Middletown  May,  1851,  and  named  from  Oliver  Cromwell. 

Old  Saybrook,  inc.  from  Saybrook  May,  1852,  and  named  at  the  same  time. 

Essex,  parish  named  1820 ;  named  from  Essex,  England ;  inc.  from  Old  Saybrook, 
May,  1854. 

West  Hartford,  named  1806;  inc.  from  Hartford  May,  1854. 

Windsor  Locks,  named  1833  from  canal  locks  there;  inc.  from  Windsor,  May, 
1854. 

Bethel,  named  1759;  Hebrew  =  house  of  God;  inc.  from  Danbury  May,  1855. 

Old  Lyme,  inc.  as  South  Lyme,  from  Lyme,  1855 ;  named  Old  Lyme,  1857. 

Putnam,  inc.  from  Pomf ret,  Thompson  &  Killingly  May,  1855 ;  named  from 
Israel  Putnam. 

Bridgewater,  named    1803;  name  descriptive;  inc.  from  New  Milford  May,  1856. 

Scotland,  parish  named  by  first  settler,  Magoon,  a  Scot,  1706;  inc.  from  Wind- 
ham May,  1857. 

East  Granby,  named  1822;  inc.  from  Granby  and  Windsor  Locks  June,  1858. 

North  Canaan,  named  1813;  inc.  from  Canaan  (whence  its  name)  May,  1858. 

Morris,  inc.  from  Litchfield  May,  1859,  and  named  from  James  Morris,  prom- 
inent resident. 

Sprague,  inc.  from  Lisbon  and  Franklin  May,  1861,  and  named  from  W.  Sprague, 
village  founder. 

Middlefield,  named  1744  from  rural  part  of  Middletown ;  inc.  from  Middletown, 
May,  1866. 

Plainville,  named  1831  =  earlier  name  "Great  Plain;"  inc.  from  Farmington 
May,  1869. 

Beacon  Falls,  name  descriptive,  1856;  inc.  from  Bethany,  Oxford,  Naugatuck  and 
Seymour  May,  1871. 

Newington,  parish  named  1718,  from  Newington  in  Surrey  or  Stoke-N.,  Middle- 
sex  (London),  inc.  from  Wethersfield,  July,  1871. 

Thomaston,  inc.  from  Plymouth  May,  1875;  named  1866  from  Seth  Thomas, 
clock  mfr.  there. 

Ansonia,  inc.,  from  Derby,  April,  1889;  named  from  Anson  G.  Phelps,  founder 
of  mfg.  village. 


178 


CITIES  IN  CONNECTICUT  WITH  DATE  OF 
INCORPORATION. 


New  Haven, 

New  Haven  County, 

January  session, 

1784 

New  London, 

New  London 

u 

" 

1784 

Hartford, 

Hartford 

" 

May  session, 

1784 

Middletown, 

Middlesex 

tt 

(< 

1784 

Norwich, 

New  London 

u 

" 

1784 

Bridgeport, 

Fairfield 

tt 

« 

1836 

Waterbury, 

New  Haven 

" 

-«< 

1853 

Meriden, 

M 

tt 

<< 

1867 

New  Britain, 

Hartford 

<( 

<( 

1870 

Danbury, 

Fairfield 

tt 

January  session, 

1889 

Rockville   (Vernon), 

Tolland 

tt 

" 

1889 

Ansonia, 

New  Haven 

" 

u 

1893 

Derby, 

<« 

(( 

tt 

1893 

Nor  walk, 

Fairfield 

" 

" 

1893 

Stamford, 

" 

tt 

it 

1893 

Willimantic   (Windham), 

Windham 

It 

tt 

1893 

Putnam, 

<« 

(( 

" 

1895 

Bristol, 

Hartford 

" 

tt 

1911 

Shelton   (Huntington), 

Fairfield 

tt 

(( 

1915 

Winsted, 

Litchfield  County,  named 

January  session, 

1917 

BOROUGHS  IN  CONNECTICUT  WITH  DATE  OF 
INCORPORATION. 


Stonington, 

New  London  County, 

May  session, 

1 801 

Guilford, 

New  Haven 

<< 

October  session, 

1815 

Newtown, 

Fairfield 

" 

May  session, 

1824 

Colchester, 

New  London 

tt 

«< 

1846 

Wallingford, 

New  Haven 

" 

«< 

1853 

Danielson   (Killingly), 

Windham 

" 

<< 

1854 

Greenwich, 

Fairfield 

" 

tt 

1854 

Fair  Haven  East  (New  Haven) 

New  Haven 

it 

« 

1872 

Stafford  Springs   (Stafford), 

Tolland 

«« 

" 

1873 

Litchfield, 

Litchfield 

IS 

January  session, 

1879 

Torrington, 

Litchfield 

(( 

" 

1887 

New  Canaan, 

Fairfield 

" 

<( 

1889 

Southington, 

Hartford 

" 

11 

1889 

Branford, 

New  Haven 

" 

«< 

1893 

Naugatuck, 

New  Haven 

11 

u 

1893 

Jewett  City  (Griswold), 

New  London 

u 

<« 

1895 

Fenwick  (Old  Saybrook), 

Middlesex 

(« 

<< 

1899 

Farrrrington, 

Hartford 

«« 

tt 

1901 

Ridgefield, 

Fairfield 

M 

tt 

1901 

Groton, 

New  London 

(( 

It 

1903 

Woodmont  (Milford), 

New  Haven 

«« 

tt 

1903 

Bantam   (Litchfield), 

Litchfield 

«« 

tt 

1915 

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CONGRESSIONAL  DISTRICTS 


With   Population   in    1910. 

1st.     County  of  Hartford  —  250,182. 

2d.     Counties  of  Tolland,  Windham,  New  London,  and  Middlesex  —  211,710. 

3d.  Towns  of  Cheshire,  Meriden,  Wallingford,  Bethany,  Hamden,  North 
Haven,  North  Branford,  Guilford,  Madison,  Woodbridge,  Orange,  Milford,  New 
Haven,  East  Haven,  and  Branford  —  217,139. 

4th.     County   of   Fairfield  —  245,322. 

5th.  County  of  Litchfield  and  the  towns  of  Southbury,  Middlebury,  Water- 
bury,  Wolcott,  Oxford,  Naugatuck,  Prospect,  Beacon  Falls,  Seymour,  Ansonia 
and  Derby  —  190,403. 


SENATORIAL  DISTRICTS 


With   Population   in    1910. 

1.  Hartford,  wards  8,  9,  and  10  —  31,309. 

2.  Hartford,  wards  3,  4,  5,  and  6  —  34,596. 

3.  Hartford,  wards  1,  2  and  7  —  33,010. 

4.  East  Hartford,  Glastonbury,  Manchester,  Marlborough,  Newington,  South 
Windsor,  Rocky  Hill,  and  Wethersfield  —  35,152. 

5.  Avon,    Berlin,    Bristol,    Burlington,    Farmington,    Plainville,    Southington, 
and  West  Hartford  —  37,570. 

6.  New  Britain  —  43,916. 

7.  Bloomfield,  Canton,  East  Granby,  East  Windsor,  Enfield,  Granby,  Hart- 
land,  Simsbury,  Suffield,  Windsor,  and  Windsor  Locks  —  34,629. 

8.  New  Haven,  wards  8,  9,  12,  and  14  —  38,914. 

9.  New  Haven,  wards  1,  2,  10,  and  13  —  27,151. 
10.     New  Haven,  wards  3,  4,  and  5  —  38,987- 
ti.     New  Haven,  wards  6,  7,  11,  and  15  —  28,553. 

12.  Branford,  East  Haven,  Guilford,  Hamden,  Madison,  North  Branford, 
North  Haven,  and  Wallingford  —  32,469. 

13.  Meriden  —  32,066. 

14.  Bethany,  Cheshire,  Milford,  Naugatuck,  Orange,  Prospect,  Woodbridge, 
and  Wolcott  —  32,823. 

15.  Waterbury,  wards  1,  2,  and  3  —  44,176. 

16.  Waterbury,  wards  4  and  5  —  28,965. 

17.  Ansonia,  Beacon  Falls,  Derby,  Middlebury,  Oxford,  Seymour,  and  South- 
bury— 33,178. 

18.  Groton  and  New  London  —  26,154. 

19.  Ledyard,  Norwich,  and  Preston  —  31,215. 

20.  Bozrah,  Colchester,  East  Lyme,  Franklin,  Griswold,  Lyme,  Lebanon,  Lis- 
bon, Montville,  North  Stonington,  Old  Lyme,  Salem,  Sprague,  Stonington,  Vol- 
untown,  and  Waterford  —  33,884. 

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21.  Bridgeport,  voting  districts,  I,  2,  3,  4,  and  5  —  37,411. 

22.  Bridgeport,  voting  districts,  6,  7,  8,  and  11 — 29,376. 

23.  Bridgeport,  voting  districts,  9,  10,  and  12  —  35,267. 

24.  Bethel,    Brookfield,    Danbury,    New    Fairfield,    Redding,    Ridgefield,    and 
Sherman  —  34,250. 

25.  Easton,   Fairfield,   Huntington,   Monroe,   Newtown,    Stratford,   Trumbull, 
Weston,  and  Westport  —  30,189. 

26.  Darien,  New  Canaan,  Wilton,  and  Norwalk  —  33,530. 
2y.     Greenwich   and   Stamford  —  45,299. 

28.  Ashford,  Eastford,  Killingly,  Putnam,  Thompson,  and  Woodstock — 21,678, 

29.  Brooklyn,  Canterbury,   Chaplin,   Hampton,   Plainfield,   Pomfret,   Scotland, 
Sterling,  and  Windham  —  26,683. 

30.  Goshen,  Harwinton,  Litchfield,   New  Hartford,   and  Torrington —  24,104. 

31.  Barkhamsted,     Canaan,     Colebrook,     Cornwall,     Kent,     Norfolk,     North 
Canaan,  Salisbury,  Sharon,  and  Winchester  —  22,055. 

32.  Bethlehem,    Bridgewater,     Morris,    New    Milford,    Plymouth,    Roxbury, 
Thomaston,  Warren,  Washington,  Watertown,  and  Woodbury  —  24,101. 

33.  Cromwell,   Middlefield,   and   Middletown  —  23,973. 

34.  Chester,  Clinton,  Durham,  East  Haddam,  East  Hampton,  Essex,  Haddam, 
Killingworth,  Old  Saybrook,  Portland,  Saybrook,  and  Westbrook  —  21,664. 

35.  Andover,    Bolton,    Columbia,    Coventry,    Ellington,    Hebron,    Mansfield, 
Somers,  Stafford,  Tolland,  Union,  Vernon,  and  Willington  —  26,459. 


REPRESENTATION  IN  THE  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY. 


There  are  168  towns  in  the  state  — 
each,  making  258  members  of  the  Ho 
atorial  Districts;  and  the  State  into  5 

Hartford  County  has 

New  Haven  County  has 

New  London  County  has 

Fairfield  County  has 

Windham   County  has 

Litchfield  County  has 

Middlesex   County  has 

Tolland  County  has 


-90  send  two  representatives,  and  78  one 
use ;  these  towns  are  divided  into  35  Sen- 
Congressional  Districts. 

7  Senators  and  45  Representatives. 

10  Senators  and  39  Representatives. 

3  Senators  and  30  Representatives. 

7  Senators  and  34  Representatives. 

2  Senators  and  24  Representatives. 

3  Senators  and  42  Representatives. 
2  Senators  and  22  Representatives. 
1  Senator     and  22  Representatives. 


POPULATION  OF  CONNECTICUT  BY  COUNTIES, 

1910. 


Hartford, 
New  Haven, 
New  London, 
Fairfield, 


Total    for  the   State, 


250,182 

Windham, 

337,282 

Litchfield, 

91,253 

Middlesex, 

245.322 

Tolland, 

181 


48,361 
70,260 
45,637 
26,459 

1,114,756 


THE  UNITED  STATES  AND  TERRITORIES. 


The  Thirteen  Original  States. 


Ratified  the  c««— .  Ratified  the 


States.  SS3SE  States 


Constitution.  oxai«.».  Constitution. 


Delaware  Dec.  7,  1787  South  Carolina   May  23,   1788 

Pennsylvania    Dec.  12,   1787  New  Hampshire   June  21,  1788 

New  Jersey    Dec.  18,  1787  Virginia   June  25,  1788 

Georgia    Jan.  2,  1788  New   York    July  26,  1788 

Connecticut  Jan.  9,  1788  North  Carolina  Nov.  21,  1789 

Massachusetts    Feb.  6,  1788  Rhode  Island  May  29,  1790 


Maryland     

.  . .  .Apr.        28, 

1788 

Organization 

of  Territories  and  Admission  of  States 

into  the  U 

nion. 

States. 

Territory 

organized. 

State 
admitted. 

Vermont    Out  of  New  Hampshire  and  New  York  Mar.  4,  1791 

Kentucky  Out  of  Virginia   June  1,  1792 

Tennessee    Out  of  North  Carolina June  1,  1796 

Ohio Ordinance,    1787    Nov.  29,  1802 

Louisiana March  3,  1805   April  30,  1812 

Indiana  May  7,   1800  Dec.  11,  1816 

Mississippi    April  7,  1798 Dec.  10,  1817 

Illinois    February  3,  1809 Dec.  3,  1818 

Alabama    March  3,  1817 Dec.  14,  1819 

Maine   Out  of   Massachusetts    Mar.  15,  182a 

Missouri    June  4,  1812 Aug.  10,  1821 

Michigan    January  1 1,  1805   June  15,  1837 

Arkansas   March  2,   1819 Jan.  26,  1836 

Florida  March  30,  1822  Mar.  3,  1845 

Texas    Annexed Dec.  29,  1845 

Iowa    June  12,  1838  Dec.  28,  1846 

Wisconsin   April  20,   1836   May  29,  1848 

California    From  Mexico  Sept.  9,  1850* 

Minnesota    March  3,  1849  , May  1 1,  1858 

Oregon  August  14,  1848 Feb.  14,  1859 

Kansas    May  30,  1854 Jan.  29,  1861 

West  Virginia   Out  of  Virginia   June  10,  1863 

Nevada     March   2,    1861    Oct  31,1864 

Nebraska May  30,  1854  Mar.  1,  1867 

Colorado    February  28,  1861   Aug.  1,  1876 

North  Dakota March   2,    1861    Nov.  3,1889- 

South  Dakota March   2,    1861    Nov.  3,  1889 

Montana    May  26,    1864    Nov.  8,  1889 

Washington    March  2,   1853  Nov.  11,  1889 

Idaho    March  3,   1863   July  3,  1890 

Wyoming July  25,  1868 July  11,  1890 

Utah    September  9,   1850   Jan.  4,  1896 

Oklahoma    May  2,   1890   Nov.  16,  1907 

New   Mexico    September  9,   1850   Tan.  6,  1912 

Arizona    February  24,  1863 Feb.  14,  1912 

Tekkxtokies.  or^fnd  TERRiTORrES.  J^ 

District   of    Columbia*  lJuly        16,1790     Alaska    July  27,1868 

District  ot    Columbia    J  Mar           3I?Q1     Hawaii   April  30)  inoo> 

New  Possessions:  A  government  for  Porto  Rico  was  established  by  the  Fifty-sixth 
Congress.  The  Phillippines  are  under  a  provisional  civil  government,  Guam,  Tutulia  and  the- 
Isthmian  Canal  Zone  under  governors,  all  appointed  by  the  President. 

*  Reduced  from  100  to  70  square  miles  by  recession  of  part  of  Virginia  in  1846. 

182 


PRESIDENTS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 


fel 

^  5 


Name. 


Where  from 


Term   of  Office. 


1789  George   Washington, Virginia     ...... .8  years. 

1797  John   Adams, Massachusetts,   . .  .4  years. 

1801  Thomas   Jefferson, Virginia,     8  years. 

1809  James    Madison, Virginia,     8  years. 

1817  James    Monroe, Virginia,     8  years. 

1825  John  Quincy  Adams, Massachusetts,   ...4  years. 

1829  Andrew    Jackson, Tennessee,  8  years. 

1837  Martin  Van  Buren, New  York,    4  years. 

1841  Wm.  Henry  Harrison,* Ohio,  1  month. 

1841  John    Tyler, Virginia,    3  years  11  months. 

1845  James  Knox  Polk, Tennessee,   4  years. 

1849  Zachary    Taylor,f Louisiana,    1  year  4  mos.  5  days. 

1850  Millard   Fillmore, New  York,    2  years,  7  mos.  26  days. 

1853  Franklin    Pierce, New  Hampshire,  .4  years. 

1857  James    Buchanan, Pennsylvania,   4  years. 

1861  Abraham    Lincoln,^ Illinois,     4  years  1  mo.  10  days. 

1865  Andrew    Johnson, Tennessee,     3  years  10  mo.  20  days. 

1869  Ulysses  S.  Grant, Illinois, 8  years. 

1877  Rutherford   B.   Hayes, Ohio,  4  years. 

1881  James   A.    Garfield,|| Ohio,  6  mos.  15  days. 

1881  Chester  A.  Arthur, New  York,    3  years  5  mos.  15  days. 

1885  Grover    Cleveland, New  York,    4  years. 

1889  Benjamin    Harrison, Indiana,    4  years. 

1893  Grover    Cleveland, New  York,   4  years. 

1897  William    McKinley,ff Ohio,  4  years  6  mos.  9  days. 

1901  Theodore    Roosevelt, New    York,    7  years  5  mos.  21  days. 

1909  William  H.  Taft, Ohio,     4  years. 

1913  Woodrow   Wilson, New  Jersey,   

*  Died  in  office  April  4,  1841,  and  was  succeeded  by  Vice-President  Tyler. 

t  Died  in  office  July  9,  1850,  and  was  succeeded  by  Vice-President  Fillmore. 

t  Assassinated  April  14,  1865,  and  was  succeeded  by  Vice-President  Johnson,  April 
15    1865. 

(I  Died  September  19,  1881,  from  wound  by  assassin,  and  was  succeeded  by  Vice- 
President  Arthur. 

1f  Died  September  14,  1901,  from  wound  by  assassin,  and  was  succeeded  by  Vice- 
President  Roosevelt. 


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CONTENTS. 

Page 

Preface    3 

Introduction     5 

Clerk's   Report    9 

Financial   Statement 13 

Resolutions  of  the  General  Assembly 15 

Preliminary   Work    20 

General  Legislative  and  County  Reunions   23 

Literary    Exercises    29 

Prayer  —  Rev.    Charles   H.    Puffer    30 

Address  of  Chairman  —  Senator  Albert  H.  House  30 

Address  of  Welcome — Governor  Marcus  H.  Holcomb   31 

Historical    Address  —  Ex-Governor    Simeon    E.    Baldwin   32 

Poem,   "The    Spirit  of    Connecticut,    'The    Constitution    State'"  — 

Herbert  Randall  39 

Address,  Capitals  and  State  Houses  of  Connecticut " —  Hon.  Charles 

Hopkins   Clark 41 

Address,  "  The  Senate  "  —  Hon.  Clifford  B.  Wilson 49 

Address,  "  The  House  "  —  Hon.  James  F.  Walsh 53 

Connecticut,  "  The  Constitution  State  "   58 

State  Flag   59 

Public  Seal  of  Connecticut  60 

Fundamental  Orders,  1638-39 62 

Charter  of  1662 63 

The  Constitution  of  Connecticut   64 

Oliver  Wolcott  —  First  Governor  of  Connecticut  under  the  Present 

Constitution     78 

Biographical  Sketches  of  the  State  Officers  of  Connecticut,  Living  1919  .  80 

Governors  —  Thomas  M.  Waller 80 

Phineas  C.  Lounsbury    81 

Morgan   G.   Bulkeley    81 

O.  Vincent  Coffin    83 

George  P.  McLean   84 

Henry    Roberts     85 

Rollin  S.  Woodruff 86 

Frank  B.  Weeks    87 

Simeon   E.   Baldwin 88 

Marcus  H.  Holcomb 9* 

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Lieutenant-Governors  —  Lyman  A.  Mills    92 

Edwin  O.  Keeler 93 

Henry  Roberts 85 

Rollin  S.  Woodruff   86 

Everett  J.  Lake  93 

Frank  B.  Weeks   87 

Dennis  A.  Blakeslee  94 

Lyman  T.  Tingier    95 

Clifford  B.  Wilson   95 

Secretaries  —  Thomas  M.  Waller   80 

Charles  E.  Searls : 96 

John  J.  Phelan 97 

Charles  Phelps  98 

Charles  G.  R.  Vinal    98 

Theodore  Bodenwein 99 

Matthew   H.   Rogers    99 

Albert   Phillips    100 

Charles  D.  Barnes   100 

Frederick .  L.    Perry    101 

Treasurers  —  E.    Stevens    Henry    101 

Charles  W.  Grosvenor  102 

Henry   H.   Gallup  . 102 

James  F.  Walsh    103 

Freeman   F.    Patten  '. 103 

Costello   Lippitt    104 

Edward   S.   Roberts    104 

Frederick  S.  Chamberlain  104 

G.  Harold  Gilpatric  •.  105 

Comptroller  —  Frank    D.    Sloat  106 

Asahel   W.    Mitchell    107 

Daniel   P.  Dunn    107 

Morris  C.  Webster    107 

Attorneys-General  —  Charles   Phelps    9$ 

William    A.    King    108 

Marcus   H.   Holcomb    91 

John    H.    Light    109 

George  E.  Hinman  109 

Frank  E.  Healy  no 

Oldest  Living  Legislators    in 

Chester   R.    Woodford    113 

Albert  L.   Hodge 114 

Connecticut   State   Government,    1919    116 

Military  Department,  1919    "7 

United    States    Senators    and    Representatives    from    Connecticut 

since  1819  and  their  term  of  service   118 

State  Officers  of  Connecticut  since  1819,  and  their  term  of  office  121 

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Speakers  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  Connecticut,  1819  to  1919  . .  126 
Members  and  Officers  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Connecticut : 

Session  of  1818  128 

Session  of  1819 132 

Session  of  1919 137 

Delegates  and  Officers  to  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  the  State 

of  Connecticut  of  1902   135 

Names  of  those  Present  at  the  General  Assembly  Centennial,  May  7,  1919  149 

Names  of  those  not  Present  at  the  General  Assembly  Centennial  165 

Length  of  Sessions  of  the  General  Assembly  176 

Legal  Holidays  in  Connecticut  176 

Connecticut  Towns  in  the  Order  of  their  Establishment  Since  1819; 

with  the  origin  of  their  names  177 

Cities  in  Connecticut  with  Date  of  Incorporation  179 

Boroughs  in  Connecticut  with  Date  of  Incorporation 179 

Congressional  Districts  of   Connecticut    180 

Senatorial  Districts  of  Connecticut  180 

Representation  in  the  General  Assembly   181 

Population  of  Connecticut  by  Counties,  1910  181 

The  United  States  and  Territories  182 

The  Thirteen  Original  States  182 

Organization  of  Territories  and  Admission  of  States  into  the  Union 182 

Presidents  of  the  United  States  and  terms  of  office  183 


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Connecticut's  Three  Great  War  Governors  Frontispiece 

Invitation  to  the  Centennial  Facing  Page  20 

Official  Program  of  the  Centennial   22 

Governor  Marcus  H.  Holcomb  31 

Charter    of    1662,    Constitution    of    1818    and    Stuart's    Portrait    of 

Washington,  in  Memorial  Hall,  State  Library   32 

Old  State  Houses  of  Connecticut 41 

Senate  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  Session  of  1919  49 

Old  Charter  Oak  and  Charter  Oak  Chair 49. 

House  of  Representatives  of  Connecticut,  Session  of  1919 53 

Evolution  of  the  Public  Seal  of  Connecticut   58 

Oliver   Wolcott  —  First    Governor   of    Connecticut   under   the    Pre- 
sent   Constitution   78 

Group  Portrait  of  Governors,  Living  1919 80 

Group  Portrait  of  Lieutenant-Governors,  Living  1919 92 

Group  Portrait  of  Secretaries,  Living  1919   96 

Group  Portrait  of  Treasurers,  Living  1919 101 

Group  Portrait  of  Comptrollers,  Living  19 19 , 108 

Group  Portrait  of  Attorneys-General,  Living  1919 108 

Group  Portrait  of  Oldest  Living  Legislators : — 

Chester  R.  Woodford  and  Albert  L.  Hodge,  with  Loving  Cups   ...  in 
Group   Portrait  of  Speakers   of  the   House   of  Representatives  of 

Connecticut,   Living    1919    126 

Group  Portrait  of  the  Officers  of  the  Senate  and  House  of  1919  137 


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